[TAG] MS DOS 7.10 disappeared?

[sindi keesan]

On Fri, 17 Jun 2005, Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote:

>
>> 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.

I ran across several other people's postings about their applications not 
finding /dev/sequencer.

>>
>> 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?

(from Kapil, the above was from Sindi)
>
> 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.

I think ac97_codec is for the mixer, not midi.

> 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.
Marcus Brinkman wrote on AWE32/64, not SBLive.  Takashi wrote on how to 
use sfxload, but I think it will only work under ALSA.

My kernel is 2.2.16 from 2000, and I found a 2000 site explaining that 
nobody had gotten SBlive to work with midi synthesis yet (just via 
Timidity, which creates PCM instead (?)).  I also found 
http://www.euronet.no/~mailme and http:/how.to/sblive which said there 
were ALSA, OSS, and Creative drivers for the same card.

The changes listed for the latest three versions of emu10k1 (in 2002) did 
not mention midi support, mostly just bugfixes and 3D sound.

ALSA does support midi synthesis on this card.  pmidi -p 6:50 file.mid 
will use the first of four channels.  I don't want to learn ALSA right 
now, since OSS works for all my other cards (even Opti 929a, with midi and 
mixer).  I don't need the features of the SB Live card (digital input, 
multi-speaker sound), just some way to avoid conflict with the ISA sound 
card that I was using before switching the DVD-ROM drive to the second 
controller.

I will attempt to fix my DMA/IRQ conflict for the ISA AWE32 card. 
Someone suggested adding something to the loadlin line to stop linux from 
using BIOS settings (bios=nopci) to avoid the conflict between the sound 
card and the DVD-ROM drive (which eventually times out on the use of IRQ 
and DMA and then reads a CD).  Or maybe I can set the BIOS such that IDE1 
is permanently assigned IRQ 15 and some DMA (3?) not used by the sound 
card.  But I thought linux normally ignores BIOS anyway.

> Regards,
>
> Kapil.
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