RE: Fedora, ALSA and MIDI OH MY! (Theme to lions, tigers, and bears, oh my!)

[Dan Thurman]

Thanks for responding!

Yes, I have tried Timidity.  It does not work.  Timidity has core
dumped (segmentation fault) a couple times.  I think the problem is
at a lower level -- involving the devices - it appears to be something
that is not activating the midi hardware interface or so I think.

Kind regards,
Dan

-----Original Message-----
From: [e-mail]
[mailto:[e-mail]]On Behalf Of Richard E Miles
Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2005 1:44 PM
To: For users of Fedora Core releases
Subject: Re: Fedora, ALSA and MIDI OH MY! (Theme to lions, tigers, and
bears, oh my!)

On Wed, 27 Apr 2005 20:00:39 -0700
"Daniel B. Thurman"  wrote:
> Folks,
>
> Is it me or does Fedora have a real problem when
> it has to deal with Sound cards?
>
> I cannot for the LIFE OF ME figure out WHY is FEDORA
> IMPOSSIBLE getting sound to work!?!?!?  I can get
> my CDROM to play music -- and wave files, etc but...
> MIDI is one of those simple things that *should*
> be working but alas -- no -- it is not simple...
> it is said not to work very well....
>
> I have tried a cheap Yamaha YMF-724F (DS-1) and a not-so-cheap
> Creative Labs, SoundBlaster LIVE card and there is no way in
> h$ll I can get midi to work for either cards!?!?!?  I cannot
> even figure out how to disable the KDE arts server since it
> was removed from the KControl and so -- kindly -- how can I
> disable it -- just in case it is preventing midi from working
> right?
>
> Yes, I scouraged goggle, AskJeves, etc. and it seems people
> got these cards to work just fine on debian, Mandrake, Suze
> but heck -- NOT ON FEDORA!?!?  I tried this on FC-2 and FC-3.
>
> Please, please, please, tell me -- how can I get MIDI to work?
>
> I was told that for YMF-724F the following line should
> be added in the /etc/modprobe.conf file:
>
> options snd-ymfpci index=0 mpu_port=0x330
>
> but -- nope!  Does not work
>
> As for the SB-Live card -  no information how in what
> to add to the modprobe.conf file....
>
> Any help is GREATLY APPRECIATED!
>
> Humbled....
> ~Dan

Have you tried timidity? I have played midi files using that. The
current timidity is in this rpm:
timidity++-2.13.0-3

If you don't have it you can get it using yum.

Fedora, ALSA and MIDI OH MY! (Theme to lions, tigers, and bears, oh my!)

[Shelagh Manton]

On Thu, 28 Apr 2005 15:54:35 -0700, Daniel B. Thurman   
wrote:
> Thanks for responding!
>
> Yes, I have tried Timidity.  It does not work.  Timidity has core
> dumped (segmentation fault) a couple times.  I think the problem is
> at a lower level -- involving the devices - it appears to be something
> that is not activating the midi hardware interface or so I think.
>
> Kind regards,
> Dan

Have you got the /dev/sequencer or its equivalent in udev? Midi won't play  
without
the proper device file. For more info on getting midi to work try the  
CCRMA site which
specializes in audio/visual redhat/fedora distributions. They have some  
info on the "modules.conf" settings for various soundcards. That said, I  
have had midi working and sometimes it don't, and I haven't got a clue  
what the difference is between the two.
Ps CCRMA have a compiled Timidity which may be of use to you.

Shelagh
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [e-mail]
> [mailto:[e-mail]]On Behalf Of Richard E Miles
> Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2005 1:44 PM
> To: For users of Fedora Core releases
> Subject: Re: Fedora, ALSA and MIDI OH MY! (Theme to lions, tigers, and
> bears, oh my!)
>
> On Wed, 27 Apr 2005 20:00:39 -0700
> "Daniel B. Thurman"  wrote:
> > Folks,
> >
> > Is it me or does Fedora have a real problem when
> > it has to deal with Sound cards?
> >
> > I cannot for the LIFE OF ME figure out WHY is FEDORA
> > IMPOSSIBLE getting sound to work!?!?!?  I can get
> > my CDROM to play music -- and wave files, etc but...
> > MIDI is one of those simple things that *should*
> > be working but alas -- no -- it is not simple...
> > it is said not to work very well....
> >
> > I have tried a cheap Yamaha YMF-724F (DS-1) and a not-so-cheap
> > Creative Labs, SoundBlaster LIVE card and there is no way in
> > h$ll I can get midi to work for either cards!?!?!?  I cannot
> > even figure out how to disable the KDE arts server since it
> > was removed from the KControl and so -- kindly -- how can I
> > disable it -- just in case it is preventing midi from working
> > right?
> >
> > Yes, I scouraged goggle, AskJeves, etc. and it seems people
> > got these cards to work just fine on debian, Mandrake, Suze
> > but heck -- NOT ON FEDORA!?!?  I tried this on FC-2 and FC-3.
> >
> > Please, please, please, tell me -- how can I get MIDI to work?
> >
> > I was told that for YMF-724F the following line should
> > be added in the /etc/modprobe.conf file:
> >
> > options snd-ymfpci index=0 mpu_port=0x330
> >
> > but -- nope!  Does not work
> >
> > As for the SB-Live card -  no information how in what
> > to add to the modprobe.conf file....
> >
> > Any help is GREATLY APPRECIATED!
> >
> > Humbled....
> > ~Dan
>
> Have you tried timidity? I have played midi files using that. The
> current timidity is in this rpm:
> timidity++-2.13.0-3
>
> If you don't have it you can get it using yum.