No MIDI on Dell Inspiron 2200 Laptop Suse 10

Ultrus · 06-25-2006, 07:56 PM

Hello all,
While audio such as mp3, and wav is working quite well on my Linux laptop, MIDI is not.If I open a midi file with KMid, it looks like the file is playing, but no sound is heard. All of the other midi keyboards and gadgets don't seem to produce sound as well.

I have a spin-off of this. I'm trying to install some old PC games through Cedega (formerly wineX). A common error mentions that a midi device is not present. As I have contacted the Cedega team for support, I'm guessing that it may have something to do with MIDI files not playing in suse 10 either on my machine.

I also like to compose music and could make use of the midi devices.

So far, I have learned that ALSA produces the sound. All the ALSA items seem to be installed as far as I can tell, and the ALSA test in Cedega has been passed.

I'm not sure if this will help, but here is some info that Cedega picked up in the setup wizard regarding my laptop:

Hardware Information
CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.70GHz
CPU GHz: 0.6
Memory (MB): 1257

Video Card
Manufacturer: Mesa project
Type: Mesa GLX Indirect
Video RAM (MB): 8
AGP Mem Available (MB): N/A
Driver Version: 1.2 (1.5 Mesa 6.2.1)

Sound Card
Name: Intel ICH6 with STAC9752,53 at 0xdfebfe00, irq 1
Driver: ALSA Version 1.0.9a

System Information
Kernel: 2.6.13-15.8-default
X Version: Xorg Version 6.8.2
Distribution: SuSE SUSE LINUX 10.0 (i586)

I welcome your ideas! Please keep replies newb friendly. I will continue to do research and post if I find anything myself.

Thank you,

Ultrus

tur third · 07-04-2006, 07:34 AM

I also had problems with midi files. I believe that on most sound cards there is a bit missing that converts the midi instruction into a sound. If you don't have this (or drivers for linux) you then have to download and install a software version ( e.g. Timidity ).

There is a tutorial on this (not sure how good it is)

http://www.linuxquestions.org/linux/..._MIDI_on_Linux

I have installed timidity on my pc and can get it to play midi's. However I have not managed to get Rosegarden to work (which can be used to edit midi's).