[linux-audio-user] Playing MIDI

[Til Schubbe]

Hallo,

I want to play a MIDI-file with a "normal", internal soundcard.

The sound-howto seems to be outdated (7/2001). The midi-howto tells
something in "8.2 MIDI file players" so I installed pmidi but I get
the following:

til at debian:~ - pmidi -l
 Port     Client name                       Port name
til at debian:~ -

Then I installed yiff which is now running on 14541/tcp and
fluidsynth and got 2 soundfonts:

fluidsynth -ni Fender2.sf2 /tmp/export.mid
fluidsynth: warning: Failed to pin the sample data to RAM; swapping
is possible.
fluidsynth: error: The "default" audio device is used by another
application
Failed to create the audio driver

I can play .wav with wavp.

Here is some module-info:

til at debian:~ - lsmod |egrep snd
snd_seq_oss            33408  0 
snd_seq_midi            7712  0 
snd_rawmidi            21408  1 snd_seq_midi
snd_seq_midi_event      6272  2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi
snd_seq                55184  5
snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_seq_device          7308  4
snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq
snd_intel8x0           29376  0 
snd_ac97_codec         76536  1 snd_intel8x0
snd_pcm_oss            56992  0 
snd_mixer_oss          19328  1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm                92808  3
snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer              23044  2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd                    55044  12
snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_midi_event,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore               7648  1 snd
snd_page_alloc          8324  2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm

I'm running Debian Sid on i386.

How can I play midi-files with my internal soundcard?

TIA
Til