Hi, guys,
i'm not able to play midi files on my sb!live. I tried to load the soundfonts but console return me this output:Devices exists and souncard is correctly recognised by kernel. Any idea? Have a nice day

'ls -l /dev/sequencer'

Hi,
here is the output of ls -l /dev/sequencer:
Have a nice day

and is anything else using the sequencer?
arts? esd? etc...

which kernel?
what version of alsa?
package or compiled?
are you using alsa oss emulation?
does 'asfxload' work?
what is the output of 'lsmod'?

Hi guys,
No, I guess, how can I verify that?

2.6.11.7

1.0.8

Packaged. Slackware current

It's not important because all the options of the my sound card is built in in the kernel!

I don't know because i did'nt try to use this command! Cai i use that like sfxload ?
Have anice day thank you

it has been a very long time since i have
tried compiling sound into my kernels...

i have found that leaving it out of the kernel,
d/l'ing and compiling alsa manually to be
much much more successful.

iirc, you might run into problems like this
if you compiled both alsa and oss in.



'asfxload' is for alsa
'sfxload' is for oss (or oss emulation)

Hi guys,
just ried asfxload and console does't return any error buut midi does't work yet! I'm a bit frustrated

What can i do now?

you could try timidity


out of curiosity, what are you using to test your midi playback?

kmid

Settings > MIDI Setup > Emu10k1 WaveTable Emu10k1 Port 0 - ALSA device > OK

Greatn it works...but only root can play midi files...i can't understand why! Any suggestion? Have anice day

Hi guys,
can anyone is able to play midi files as normal user using asfxload or sfxload for loading soundfonts? Have a nice day.

Add your user to the group "audio". (should be audio, you can check by typing "ls -l /dev/sound".)

All of the files in /dev/sound should belong to root, but be part of group "audio" and have read-write for group. If your user is a member of the audio group, you'll be able to use those devices.

Hi killerbob,
thank you for your answer but my user ia already member of audio group. The files permission of sound devices are correct....so i'm a bit confuseed! Have anice day

Hi nemesi,

I have the same problem than you...

To play a midi file as a non-root user, I have to log in as root, start KDE and play a file using kmid (maybe some other software could do the job, but it didn't work with pmidi...)

From this point, I can play midi files using any software on any user account, until I reboot...

It suggests me that under root permissions, the kmid softwares does something special that, if we could isolate, it would probably solve our problem... (if I just use kmid with normal user account, before using the 'trick', it doesn't produce any sound...)

By the way, the "test midi" button in KDE control center never worked... is it the same for you ^
Did it work with anybody using:

Slackware 10.1
KDE 3.4 upgraded from precompiled packages
Sound blaster live (emu10k1)
awesfx 5.0