[F8]: Getting MIDI player to work: HOW?

[Dan Thurman]

On Tuesday 10 June 2008 06:15:56 pm Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
> On Tuesday 10 June 2008 05:55:40 pm fred smith wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 05:52:09PM -0700, Dan Thurman wrote:
> > > Hmm.  I did not realize that since my Amarok and other
> > > sound players do work, why is it that MIDI does not?
> > >
> > > I do have PulseAudio installed...
> > >
> > > Also, when I click on PulseAudio Device Chooser, nothing
> > > appears at all.
> > >
> > > Anyway, can someone point the way?
> > >
> > > Thanks!
> > > Dan
> >
> > I dunno about Fedora, but on Centos 5 (RHEL5) there is no midi player.
> > I couldn't find a RPM for timidity++ anywhere, but it was easy to
> > build and install. now my web browser can play midi tracks without
> > hassle.
> > I know, some people prefer binary RPMs only, but sometimes they just
> > aren't available.
>
> Double-clicking on the midi file ran kmid, but there is no sound.
> Timidity++ comes installed with Fedora 8.  But still, it does not
> do anything.  I ran:
> timidity -iA -OO &
> TiMidity starting in ALSA server mode
> Opening sequencer port: 128:0 128:1 128:2 128:3
> Then kmid: no sound.
> I used -OO because esound option (-Oe) failed to run Timidity++,
> even though esound appears in pulseaudio manager as a client but
> for some reason the -0e option fails.  I do notice in PA Mgr that
> esound clients and modules are there, modules have arguments.
> Maybe the modules needs to be configured? Dunno.
> lsmod returns:
> ========================================
> snd_rtctimer            6753  1
> snd_hda_intel         319865  6
> snd_seq_dummy           6853  0
> snd_seq_oss            29633  0
> snd_seq_midi_event      9921  1 snd_seq_oss
> snd_seq                44913  6
> snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event snd_seq_device          9933 
> 3 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
> snd_pcm_oss            37441  0
> snd_mixer_oss          16577  2 snd_pcm_oss
> snd_pcm                61637  3 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm_oss
> snd_timer              21065  3 snd_rtctimer,snd_seq,snd_pcm
> snd_page_alloc         11337  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
> snd_hwdep              10309  1 snd_hda_intel
> snd                    44517  19
> snd_hda_intel,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,
>snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_hwdep soundcore               9633  2 snd
> pcspkr                  6592  0
> ========================================
> What is missing is the midi module, I think.  I just don't see it.
> Perhaps I need to manually add this in? If so, how is this done?

Oh, I see the PA Device Chooser.  It appears as an applet.  Doh!
Seems everything is there - just that there is no default server...
Hm..

I forgot to add: /etc/modprobe:
==================
alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel
options snd-card-0 index=0
options snd-hda-intel index=0

Hmm...  should there be a midi entry in there?

Thanks-
Dan