Hello!
For alsa-seq midi. I had the same problem. I don't know. But did you run the
aconnect program? If you start fluidsynth or any alsa-seq client it only
offers a port. Normally if it is the first alsa-seq client started this is
port 128. Then you need to connect your soundcards midi-in to 128. Usually
this is:
aconnect 64 128
You can see all input ports with:
aconnect -li
and all output ports with:
aconnect -lo
If you i.e. want to play a midifile to fluidsynth, but not use fluidsynth
directly, then you could do:
fluidsynth (make all settings)
And on another console run:
pmidi -p 128:0 file.mid
This would play midi-data from pmidi to port 128, which is your fluidsynth
port. If you start more midi-apps run aconnect to see apropriate portnumbers.
For your alsa-problem. I defenitely think, that it is a version difference
problem. Maybe the best would be to uninstall your alsadriver package and get
alsa0.9.2 from
alsa-project.org and install that (driver, lib, utils). I have
that combination and it works fine on my suse 8.1 (kernel 2.4.20).
I hope that helps it little.
Kindest regards
Julien
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