/dev/sequencer not found.
 

I have recently been trying to use KMid, but I have run into a problem. KMid uses a device called sequencer. I've looked in my /dev folder where it said it was, but it isn't there. The commands "locate" and "which" also can't find it. I have a Sound Blaster compatable sound card and I was wondering where, or how I can fix this problem and get sequencer installed and working. How would I do this :Pengy:

I'm sure you've thought of this yourself, but did you run locate as root?

all the necessary modules for your sound card may not be getting loaded.
is it alsa or the oss modules loaded from the kernel.

more info
 

I suppose you need more info then. I am running an OSS Sound System, and am using an Ensoniq sound card. Do you need anymore info?

I need to know how to fix this. Someone please reply.

post the output of /cat/proc/pci -the part with your sound card anyway.
and
lsmod

lsmod gives me this...

Module Size Used by Tainted: P
parport_pc 25096 1 (autoclean)
lp 8096 0 (autoclean)
parport 34176 1 (autoclean) [parport_pc lp]
agpgart 40896 3 (autoclean)
nvidia 1767264 11 (autoclean)
es1371 29000 0
soundcore 6276 0 [es1371]
ac97_codec 12488 0 [es1371]
gameport 3316 0 [es1371]
nfsd 74256 8 (autoclean)
af_packet 14952 1 (autoclean)
sr_mod 16920 0 (autoclean)
floppy 55132 0
ne2k-pci 6752 1 (autoclean)
8390 7916 0 (autoclean) [ne2k-pci]
nls_iso8859-1 3516 2 (autoclean)
nls_cp850 4316 2 (autoclean)
vfat 11820 2 (autoclean)
fat 37944 0 (autoclean) [vfat]
supermount 15296 3 (autoclean)
ide-cd 33856 0
cdrom 31648 0 [sr_mod ide-cd]
ide-scsi 11280 0
scsi_mod 103284 2 [sr_mod ide-scsi]
usbmouse 2936 0 (unused)
keybdev 2720 0 (unused)
mousedev 5268 1
hid 20900 0 (unused)
input 5664 0 [usbmouse keybdev mousedev hid]
usb-uhci 24652 0 (unused)
usbcore 72992 1 [usbmouse hid usb-uhci]
rtc 8060 0 (autoclean)
reiserfs 175120 1

but I get this

bash: /cat/proc/pci: No such file or directory

from the other command. Now do you know what's wrong?

Can anybody help me?

sorry. i typed that cat /proc/pci wrong. but i don't need it.
there's no sequencer module loaded.
i don't know the name of the oss sequencer, but the also one is snd-seq.o
you can try a modprobe snd-seq and see if that does it.
it might be modprobe sequencer
when you modprobe, leave the .o off the end

you can also
find /lib -name "*seq*" -print
and that will list any modules with seq in the name.
if your modules.conf is set up right, and you load the main one, the
others will get loaded with it.

Ok that actually sounds like a good idea. I'll go try to find it. What a sec... when I used locate sequencer... it brought up something like "a.sequencer.h" but I was positive that wasn't it, but maybe it is...

By the way, what does Mod Probe actually do?

I Think that just made things worse... Now after modprobing... KMid just crashes immediatly. What happened?

maybe you got part of it, but not all of what you needed, and kmid
couldn't handle it.
modprobe loads kernel modules.
you can try modprobe with with all of those files with seq in the name.
you don't have to use the pathname either, just the file without the .o

you can do lsmod again to see what if anything stayed loaded.

these modules will not be loaded after you reboot either.

That explains why KMid is working again. I bet those are ALSA modules, but I'm using OSS. I have no idea how to fix this.

maybe you can use the mandrake sound setup tool to use a different
sound driver.