<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:10pt"><div><span><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; "><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">I have an older box that I've been toying around with as a means to play a new <br>M-Audio Axiom 49 I just picked up. With some tinkering I was able to get <br>timidity installed as server and used jack to get the thing playing sounds but <br>still noticed an ever so slight bit of latency on this old beast of a machine.<br><br>So the other day I saw the local second-hand store selling a PCI 16 soundblaster <br>card and I picked it up for $5. I have it working now for audio, but still seem <br>to have trouble getting anything to come out the
sequencer.<br><br>My motherboard has a VIA/realtek 8233 compatible chip on it and this new one <br>runs under the ES1371 driver. My M-Audio shows up as USB-Audio<br><br># lspci | fgrep audio<br>00:0b.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq 5880B [AudioPCI] (rev 02)<br>00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 <br>AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50)<br><br># cat /proc/asound/cards <br>0 [AudioPCI ]: ENS1371 - Ensoniq AudioPCI<br> Ensoniq AudioPCI ENS1371 at 0xec00, irq 10<br>1 [U49 ]: USB-Audio - USB Axiom 49<br> M-Audio USB Axiom 49 at usb-0000:00:10.0-2, full speed<br>2 [V8235 ]: VIA8233 - VIA 8235<br>
VIA 8235 with ALC101 at 0xd800, irq 5<br><br>Of course the Timidity stuff shows up at 128 for ports 0-3 and alsa is saying <br>that port 0 on the AudioPCI is showing up at 16. But no matter what I seem to <br>do, I can't get any audio to come out:<br># aplaymidi -l<br>Port Client name Port name<br>14:0 Midi Through Midi Through Port-0<br>16:0 Ensoniq AudioPCI ES1371<br>20:0 USB Axiom 49 USB Axiom 49 MIDI 1<br>128:0 TiMidity TiMidity port 0<br>128:1 TiMidity
TiMidity port 1<br>128:2 TiMidity TiMidity port 2<br>128:3 TiMidity TiMidity port 3<br><br># aplaymidi -p 128:0 sample.mid # this works<br># aplaymidi -p 16:0 sample.mid # this acts like it's doing something<br> # but no sound comes out<br><br>Does anyone have any suggestions to help me get this thing working? The reason <br>I bought this thing (besides the fact it was only $5) was because of the latency <br>running the timidity soft-synth with my Axiom. I was hoping that since it had a <br>hardware-based wavetable that it would have less latency. I'd love
to get it <br>working! Thanks for any help in advance.<br><br>SW<br></span></span></div><div> </div><div>----<br>Barack-O-phobia: The fear of politicians who think (more) government is the solution to every problem.</div></div></body></html>