[linux-audio-user] Debian 2.6.14 alsa problems

[Tim Howard]

Hello,
   I'm having exactly the same problem with my emu10k1 (SBLive 5.1)
sound card.  All the MIDI programs I try seem to _think_ they're
working... but still no sound!  (Other audio works fine, though.)  I
have used the SuSE and Fedora distros, but same thing.
   Any other ideas?

> Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2006 15:38:40 -0500
> From: Laura Conrad <lconrad at laymusic.org>
> Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] Debian 2.6.14 alsa problems
> To: A list for linux audio users <linux-audio-user at music.columbia.edu>
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> >>>>> "th" == tim hall <tech at glastonburymusic.org.uk> writes:
>
>     th> On Tuesday 03 January 2006 17:26, Lee Revell was like:
>
>     >> What soundcard driver are you using?  What exactly do you mean by
>     >> "hardware midi doesn't work".
>
> emu10k1
>
>     >>
>     >> Please, be specific with these bug reports or they are useless.
>
>     th> I have always found it necessary to add
>     th> snd-seq-midi
>     th> to /etc/modules to get MIDI to work on my DeMuDi systems.
>
> I have that.  As far as I know, all the modules are loaded correctly,
> and when I say "pmidi -l", I get:
>
>  Port     Client name                       Port name
>  62:0     Midi Through                      Midi Through Port-0
>  64:0     EMU10K1 MPU-401 (UART)            EMU10K1 MPU-401 (UART)
>  65:0     Emu10k1 WaveTable                 Emu10k1 Port 0
>  65:1     Emu10k1 WaveTable                 Emu10k1 Port 1
>  65:2     Emu10k1 WaveTable                 Emu10k1 Port 2
>  65:3     Emu10k1 WaveTable                 Emu10k1 Port 3
>
> But when I say "pmidi -p 65:0 score.midi", it looks like it's trying
> to play, but I don't hear any sound.  ("timidity score.midi" plays
> fine, and I've used asfxload to load a soundfont.)
>
> It may well be a mixer problem, but I've unmuted and raised the volume
> on everything that looks at all plausible.
>