[TAG] playmidi plays silently

[sindi keesan]

The author of awesfx steered me to the .tar.gz at 
www.alsa-project.org/~iwai.

Version 5 includes ALSA and version 4 does not and it also does something 
else differently which might be better with older cards.

I just acquired a second Soundblaster Live, which also accepts sound fonts 
using this same program.  Win98FE, which suddenly stopped booting with the 
AWE64 ISA card (after I changed PCI ethernet cards and added MGA), boots 
with this one but the driver needs SE not FE (which would imply they don't 
support DOS).  Linux OSS worked perfectly (soundcore.o and emu1k10.o - ?) 
and this PCI card also cured my problem of the DVD-ROM drive not finding a 
free DMA and IRQ.

So I am set to compile awesfx and test it on a card which I am certain 
does not need isapnp because it is not isa, and then on an AWE32 with and 
without initialization in DOS, to see if it really needs to be DOS or 
isapnp initialized.  Supposedly the sb driver initializes the card itself. 
The mad16 definitely did so for the opti 931 and a cs4232 appeared to do 
the same (but no sound came out).

Ubuntu linux did not find our ISA ethernet or sound cards.

I will let you know when I succeed in getting sound from a midi file.
Thanks for the help.

keesan at sdf.lonestar.org
SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org