[linux-audio-user] Next question re midi

[M P Smoak]

On Thursday 12 January 2006 20:49, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Thursday 12 January 2006 20:32, M P Smoak wrote:
> >On Thursday 12 January 2006 16:11, Lee Revell wrote:
> >> On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 15:51 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> >> > Greetings;
> >> >
> >> > I have installed an Audigy 2 value board which is
> >> > supposed to do midi according to the propaganda.
> >> >
> >> > Kernel is 2.6.15, with all revelant audio as modules and
> >> > are modprobe.conf-iged in and showing in the lsmod
> >> > listing which is quite bulky so I won't post that list.
> >> >
> >> > In kde's control center, under sound, the normal, .wav or
> >> > .ogg based effects work rather nicely, but the midi test
> >> > seems to be a total non performer.
> >>
> >> You have to load a soundfont using "asfxload".
> >>
> >> > 'cat'ing a .mid file to any of the 0- devices is either a
> >> > no such device error, or returns silently in 1 second or
> >> > less.
> >>
> >> That's not how ALSA MIDI works, you can't just cat a .mid
> >> file to a device node.  Use aplaymidi.
> >>
> >> Lee
> >
> >Speaking of aplaymidi, how do I pause a playback, back it up
> > or just stop it, once it's playing.  man aplaymidi tells me
> > nothing.
>
> If you have kde, try kmid, it works for all that.

No joy:

kmid /home/marv/Marv/enchanted-island.mid
KMid 2.0 Copyright (C) 1997,98,99,2000,01 Antonio Larrosa 
Jimenez. Malaga (Spain)
KMid comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details view file 
COPYING
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions
Sorry, this KMid version was compiled without
ALSA support but you're using ALSA .
Please compile KMid for yourself or tell the people
at your Linux distribution to compile it themselves
Player :: There are no midi ports !

I'm running planetccrma/rh9.