[TAG] MS DOS 7.10 disappeared?

[Kapil Hari Paranjape]

Hello,

I forgot to mention that the "solution" I proposed *did* work
for me ... but I haven't used that machine in a long time---it is
now one of the servers on our network hand has no time to play midi
or any other songs for me.

On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 02:19:18AM +0000, sindi keesan wrote:
> I think playmidi -e is for external midi and -a for awe (and -4 for FM 
> synthesis, which this card does not do).

OK. Th external midi was what worked for an older version of
"playmidi", now that there is explicit support for "awe" one should
use that.

> The problem is, I cannot get 
> sfxload to load a sound bank - it cannot find /dev/sequencer.  Is your 
> soundbank something special that can home in on the sequencer?  I used 
> synthgm.sbk that came from the awesfx site or SB16.
> 
> playmidi and drvmidi can't find the sequencer either.  On other cards, if 
> I forget to load the sound bank, they go ahead and play silence.  On this 
> card, they complain about no /dev/sequencer.
> 
> What do I need to do in order for /dev/sequencer to work?

Can't really help you here. For me what I proposed "Just Worked".
Here is the list of audio related modules that are loaded---soundcore,
sound, ac97_codec, emu10k1.

A very useful source of help is Takeshi Iwai's pages on the use of SB
Live. (Google for this). I also recall the some pages written by
Markus Brinkmann helped.

Regards,

Kapil.
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