Couldn't open /dev/sequencer

[C. Linus Hicks]

On Sun, 2005-02-13 at 23:22 -0400, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> C. Linus Hicks wrote:
> 
> >On Sun, 2005-02-13 at 20:07 -0400, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>Hello,
> >>
> >>I was tring to play a .mid for the first time since installing FC3. I 
> >>use KDE, so I just browsed to the file with Konqueror, and double 
> >>clicked. KMix open and gave this error:
> >>
> >>Couldn't open /dev/sequencer.
> >>Probably there is another program using it.
> >>
> >>I also tried the following:
> >>
> >>$ locate sequencer | grep dev
> >>/usr/share/doc/alsa-lib-devel-1.0.6/doxygen/html/group___sequencer.html
> >>
> >>What so I have to do to get FC3 to play midis?
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >Do you have any /dev/snd/midi* nodes?
> >
> >  
> >
>  From `locate mid | grep dev` I got:
> /dev/dmmidi
> /dev/midi
> /dev/snd/midiC0D0

This may be a udev or related issue. Try (as root) cd'ing to /dev and do
'MAKEDEV sound' and see if that helps.

Please note that you will lose these device nodes on re-boot.

-- 
C. Linus Hicks <lhicks at nc dot rr dot com>