Re: [linux-audio-user] Soundless ALSA Newbie

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Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] Soundless ALSA Newbie
From: Guy Clotilde (guy.clotilde_AT_wanadoo.fr)
Date: Thu Jan 09 2003 - 21:53:35 EET


On/le Thu, 9 Jan 2003 20:33:29 +0200 (EET)
Sakari Aaltonen <sakari_AT_aplac.hut.fi> wrote / a écrit quelque chose
comme:

> Then I tried 'alsamixer'. It does show the correct title
> VIA 8233A/C
> Avance Logic ALC650 rev 0
> and a collection of bars. The meaning of many of them is unclear
> to me, but I tried to up the volumes on most. Unfortunately, when
> I tried to play a MIDI file with 'aplay', no sound resulted. I
> also downloaded and tried the old 'playmidi', but it doesn't
> find '/dev/sequencer'.

alsa has an emulation layer for oss. So a nice little oss mixer called aumix works fine.
For midi, my sound card magically got midi working with 0.9rc6 . With alsamixer, "PCM" and "FM legacy" items control midi.
But you'll be pleased to know that you can make midi works really good (if better) with timidity. It's a midi player with soundfonts that can act as an alsa server for midi (must be specified at compil time). You should really try timidity. It's shipped with a lot of linux distros.

Cheers
Guy CLO~
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