From owner-freebsd-multimedia Fri Feb 1 9:46:59 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from smtpproxy2.mitre.org (smtpproxy2.mitre.org [128.29.154.90]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82E6F37B400 for ; Fri, 1 Feb 2002 09:45:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from avsrv2.mitre.org (avsrv2.mitre.org [128.29.154.4]) by smtpproxy2.mitre.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g11HiEc08926 for ; Fri, 1 Feb 2002 12:44:14 -0500 (EST) Received: from MAILHUB1 (mailhub1.mitre.org [129.83.20.31]) by smtpsrv2.mitre.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g11HgqN29533; Fri, 1 Feb 2002 12:44:13 -0500 (EST) Received: from dhcp-105-164.mitre.org (128.29.105.164) by mailhub1.mitre.org with SMTP id 9047800; Fri, 01 Feb 2002 12:41:55 -0500 Message-ID: <3C5AD399.B6CAC07D@mitre.org> Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2002 12:42:49 -0500 From: Jason Andresen Organization: The MITRE Corporation X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en]C-20000818M (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Joel Dinel Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Playmidi & SBLive References: <20020201104449.A28042@sunder.touchtunes.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Joel Dinel wrote: > > Before I start, I should specify that this is my very first attempt at playing > MIDI on FreeBSD. > > I've got an SBLive value, working fine on FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE. I can play MP3s, > WAVs and CDs without a hitch. When I try to play a MIDI file with playmidi, I > get this : > > [dinjo@sunder 316 midi]$ playmidi -f mm2Metal.mid > Playmidi 2.4 Copyright (C) 1994-1997 Nathan I. Laredo, AWE32 by Takashi Iwai > This is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. > For details please see the file COPYING. > open /dev/sequencer: Device not configured > [dinjo@sunder 317 midi]$ > > /dev/sequencer exists: > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root wheel 10 Jan 30 10:38 sequencer -> sequencer0 > crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 30, 1 Jan 30 10:38 sequencer0 > > Dmesg reports my card as follows: > pcm0: port 0xdc00-0xdc1f irq 10 at device 18.0 on pci0 > > My kernel has *only* this line regarding sound: > device pcm > > When installing my kernel, I have done this: > cd /dev > ./MAKEDEV snd0 > > When I built playmidi from ports, I chose option #5: > 5. SB AWE32 Synth > (The other 4 choices didn't make sense to me). > > Is there anything I am missing? I checked the archives for this mailing list, > and I couldn't find anything close to the problem I am experiencing. Simply > put, does the current PCM driver for FreeBSD support MIDI Playback? > > Please CC back to me as I am not subscribed to this list. I don't think FreeBSD supports the MIDI on the SBLive (or any MIDI for that matter in 4.x yet. If you want to play MIDI files, look into a program called timidity++ in the ports. -- \ |_ _|__ __|_ \ __| Jason Andresen jandrese@mitre.org |\/ | | | / _| Network and Distributed Systems Engineer _| _|___| _| _|_\___| Office: 703-883-7755 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message