21 Feb
2004
21 Feb
'04
4:48 p.m.
If the 7018 is similar to the 7012 in my laptop it only supports
external midi. That means there is no way around the big downloads ^^
If you just want to play back midi files I'd recommend to go with
timidity and best of all, it isn't that hard to set up ^^.
just download it from www.timidity.jp and compile/install as usual or
get it from your favourite binary repository
this is my "configure line" it adds the X and gtk interface ... warning
the CFLAGS are optional and highly machine dependent
./configure --prefix=/usr/ --sysconfdir=/etc/ --disable-more-warnings
--disable-debug CFLAGS=' -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -march=athlon-tbird -
m3dnow' LDFLAGS=' -O3 -s ' --enable-gtk --enable-xaw --enable-
spectrogram
Go to http://dodo.nurs.or.jp/~iz/guspat/tim-patches.html (japanese) and
download all the guspat-* files. According to the fish are aq to aw
optional. Then extract them to <prefix-of-timidity-install>/share/ so
in my case /usr/share/
test timidity with :
timidity <midifile>
add -ia/-ig to get a nice X/gtk interface
hope that was of help :)
Am 21.02.2004 13:47:33 schrieb(en) Ruth A. Kramer:
Sorry, this is probably a very newbie question, and I
haven't lurked
very long or searched the archives (partly because I don't have a
good
idea of keywords to search for).
I've used Linux for a few years, but sound isn't normally a concern.
My
son is trying to make the switch from Windows to Linux (and has, for
some things) and now wants to play midi files.
His impression is that, on Windows, sound players use synthesizer's
(and
"patches"/"samples") built into the sound card while on Linux those
patches/samples (??) have to be downloaded and he talks about 40 MB
worth of files in some cases.
Maybe the difference is that we also changed computers, and his
current
computer has an on-board SiS 7018 sound thingie while his previous
computer (IIRC) had a separate sound card, possibly with something
like
the Yamaha OPL xxx on it.
Any light anybody can shed on this would be appreciated. (I did skim
through a Linux Sound HOWTO (that was actually a little bit more like
an
FAQ), and saw some hints, but I really don't know how to interpret
them.)
Keywords to use to search the archives or Google, or pointers to
simple
documentation that focuses on this subject could also be helpful.
No doubt what ever I learn will end up on a WikiLearn page
(http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Wikilearn/WebChanges).
thanks,
Randy Kramer