[linux-audio-user] Debian 2.6.14 alsa problems

[Nigel Henry]

On Tuesday 10 January 2006 17:42, Tim Howard wrote:
> >From: Nigel Henry <cave.dnb at tiscali.fr>
> >Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] Debian 2.6.14 alsa problems
> >To: linux-audio-user at music.columbia.edu
> >Cc: Tim Howard <tdhoward at gmail.com>
> >Message-ID: <200601061920.13253.cave.dnb at tiscali.fr>
> >Content-Type: text/plain;  charset="iso-8859-1"
> >
> >On Friday 06 January 2006 17:16, Tim Howard wrote:
> >> > >>>    Any other ideas?
> >> > >>
> >> > >> Just to verify:  you loaded a valid soundfont into the wavetable
> >> > >> synth, and you're sure you're sending the MIDI command sequence to
> >> > >> the wavetable synth?
> >> > >
> >> > > I have loaded the same soundfont that I use under Windoze, and all
> >> > > the instruments show up in Rosegarden...  But still no sound.
> >>
> >> OK, I did a "cat /proc/asound/card0/wavetableD1" and discovered that
> >> the soundfont wasn't actually loading!  I hadn't installed the package
> >> containing sfxload, so my call to it was failing, and I didn't realize
> >> it...   Bingo, now it works!
> >>
> >> > > It's
> >> > > probably something ridiculously simple, since I'm new to this...
> >> >
> >> > S'ok.  You're right that it usually is something simple, but it
> >> > never seems that way until *after* the problem is solved, when
> >> > it's easy to call it that!
> >>
> >> <g>  Yep, it was ridiculously simple...  Thanks for the help!
> >
> > Hi Tim. Could you verify something? I only use my Audigy2 soundcard, and
> > have the onboard card disabled with the jumpers on the MOBO. Do you still
> > have your onboard card enabled? If so, and you're now able to play midi
> > files, the fact that Laura still has her onboard card enabled, has
> > nothing to do with her inability to play midi files.
> >
> > Glad you got yours working. Nigel.
>
> I checked my BIOS, and I currently have it set to disable audio.  The
> only other option is "auto", which I have no idea what it looks at to
> automatically do... whatever it does.
>
> I tried setting this option to auto, then booted into Linux.
> Everything still worked fine, but it could be detecting my other sound
> card and automatically disabled the onboard sound.
>
> Anything else I should try?

Hi Tim. Regarding your card. No. If it's working now, don't mess with it.

Something you could do as a last request, is have a look in lsmod, and see if 
there is a module there named emu10k1_gp. This appears to be an oss module 
for the gameport. I do not have that module for my Audigy2, but Laura does 
have it showing in lsmod with her Audigy live Platinum. Nigel.