RHEL clone won't play MIDI on Analog Devices SoundMAX

[Dan Lund]

Do an "lspci -v" as root, send the results.
The problem is not with XMMS, it's with the audio not being
initialized, driver-wise.

This is not even to the point of discussing audio formats, yet.

--Dan

On 11/21/05, Victor Odhner <vodhner at cox.net> wrote:
> I have a few hundred midi files to edit over the next several months, and
> this problem may drive me back to Windows for a long time.  I really
> don't want to regress, but to prevent that, I need not only (1) for MIDI
> files to play on my machine, but (2) to find a viable MIDI sequencer
> package (which I expect I'll have to pay for).
>
> So, is there anybody out there who can discuss MIDI under Linux?
>
> Dan Lund wrote in another thread:
>
> >Well, I do know that XMMS will play MIDI format.
>
> It's comforting to hear that.  So, how do I make it happen?
>
> I'm on CentOS 4.
>
> I select a MIDI file, say "Open With" and enter XMMS, and up it comes.
> Or I bring up "xmms &" from the command line.
> Or "xmms /wherever/it/is/filename.mid &", which doesn't help any.
> Either way there is a (highly non-standard, of course!) file-browse menu.
> I can see my file after pressing the "Add Files in Directory" button.
>
> So I browse to the file and select it, and the browse dialog disappears.
>
> xmms stares at me blankly.
> I press "Play".  The browse dialog comes up again.
> I select the file.  Highlight it.  Press "Play".  Dialog disappears.
>
> What weird little cultural incantation am I missing?
>
> FOSS programmers need to be *so* doggone inventive with
> their interfaces, but can't produce a decent diagnostic message.
> Grrr.
>
> KDE offers kmid to play the file, so I try that.
>  Could not open /dev/sequencer;
>  probably there is another program using it
>
> ls -ld /dev/sequencer
>  ls: /dev/sequencer: No such file or directory
>
> ls -ld /dev/midi
>  ls: /dev/midi: No such file or directory
>
> /sbin/modprobe -l | grep via
>  /lib/modules/2.6.9-5.0.3.EL/kernel/sound/pci/snd-via82xx.ko
>  /lib/modules/2.6.9-5.0.3.EL/kernel/drivers/scsi/sata_via.ko
>  /lib/modules/2.6.9-5.0.3.EL/kernel/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-via.ko
>  /lib/modules/2.6.9-5.0.3.EL/kernel/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-viapro.ko
>  /lib/modules/2.6.9-5.0.3.EL/kernel/drivers/i2c/chips/via686a.ko
>  /lib/modules/2.6.9-5.0.3.EL/kernel/drivers/net/via-rhine.ko
>  /lib/modules/2.6.9-5.0.3.EL/kernel/drivers/net/via-velocity.ko
>
> # /sbin/modprobe -l snd-intel8x0
>  /lib/modules/2.6.9-5.0.3.EL/kernel/sound/pci/snd-intel8x0.ko
>
> # /sbin/modprobe -l snd-pcm-oss
>  /lib/modules/2.6.9-5.0.3.EL/kernel/sound/core/oss/snd-pcm-oss.ko
>
> # /sbin/modprobe -l snd-mixer-oss
>  /lib/modules/2.6.9-5.0.3.EL/kernel/sound/core/oss/snd-mixer-oss.ko
>
> # /sbin/modprobe -l snd-seq-oss
>  /lib/modules/2.6.9-5.0.3.EL/kernel/sound/core/seq/oss/snd-seq-oss.ko
>
> /dev/sequencer and /dev/midi are still AWOL.
>
> # cat /etc/modprobe.conf
>  alias eth0 via-rhine
>  alias snd-card-0 snd-via82xx
>  options snd-card-0 index=0
>  install snd-via82xx /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-via82xx &&
> /usr/sbin/alsactl restore >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
>  remove snd-via82xx { /usr/sbin/alsactl store >/dev/null 2>&1 || : ; };
> /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove snd-via82xx
>  alias usb-controller ehci-hcd
>  alias usb-controller1 uhci-hcd
>
> ... so I enter:
>  # install snd-via82xx /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-via82xx
> Modprobe returns a process result of 1 and replies:
>  install: unrecognized option `--ignore-install'
>  Try `install --help' for more information.
>
> /usr/sbin/alsactl restore
>  no response; result code is zero; those two devices still absent.
>
> shutdown; switch to Windows; double-click the file.  Hear music.
>
> Help!
>
> Vic
>
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