On Tuesday 03 January 2006 17:26, Lee Revell was like: I have always found it necessary to add snd-seq-midi to /etc/modules to get MIDI to work on my DeMuDi systems. I find http://alsa.opensrc.org/aadebug to be a useful source of diagnostic info (you can always snip the modprobe conf section). I suspect most posters to this list aren't intending to make formal bug reports, however, if we make a habit of including this information in a familiar format it makes it easier for everyone to zero in on each particular case and may provide useful incidental information. -- cheers, tim hall http://glastonburymusic.org.uk/tim

On Wednesday 04 January 2006 22:33, Laura Conrad was like: I didn't realise there was a limit on what you can send. :| -- cheers, tim hall http://glastonburymusic.org.uk/tim

th> On Tuesday 03 January 2006 17:26, Lee Revell was like: emu10k1 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. th> I find th> http://alsa.opensrc.org/aadebug th> to be a useful source of diagnostic info (you can always snip the modprobe th> conf section). I suspect most posters to this list aren't intending to make th> formal bug reports, I certainly wasn't; I was just trying to qualify "just worked" appropriately. th> however, if we make a habit of including this information in a th> familiar format it makes it easier for everyone to zero in on th> each particular case and may provide useful incidental th> information. -- Laura (mailto:lconrad@laymusic.org , http://www.laymusic.org/ ) (617) 661-8097 fax: (501) 641-5011 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02139

On Wednesday 04 January 2006 21:38, Laura Conrad wrote: Hi Laura. I may be going down the wrong road here, but it appears you have 2 cards. The one on the MOBO, and the Creative one. Do you have them both set up to speakers? If so. Are you sure that when you are getting sound output, thats it's through the Creative card, and not the onboard one. Please run. cat /proc/asound/cards to see what order your cards are being loaded, and post it . Do you have Qjackctl installed (the front end to Jack) ? If not, I'd suggest installing it, as you can play with a lot of settings. If so. Have a look in "Settings" and the box marked Interface. Compare the HW # with the card number for the Creative card from cat /proc/asound/cards. If it is different, change the HW # to the number of the Creative card, and try the midi again. I'm clutching at straws here, but did have problems with my USB midi keyboard being detected as a soundcard, and as the USB starts up early in the boot process, Alsa was asigning it as the first card. I only work with the one sound card, an Audigy2 soundblaster, so have no idea on how the 2 card setup works, but it may be worth looking in Qjackctl, even if it's just to cross something else off the list. All the best. Nigel.

On Thursday 05 January 2006 21:49, Laura Conrad wrote: Hi Laura. Are you using the onboard soundcard? Perhaps you could disable it, either in the BIOS, or from jumpers on the MOBO as I have done. It might help to remove potential problems, as I see both cards are using irq9. This may or may not be causing a problem, but if you just have your Audigy card enabled, at least you are only dealing with that card. Nigel.

On Wednesday 04 January 2006 08:38 pm, Laura Conrad wrote: Hello Laura, On the SB Live Analog/Digital Output Jack switch: Set it On and try to play a midi file. If no go, then Set if Off and retry the midi file. I no longer use a Live! card (blew the card with too hot of recording levels and replaced it with an Audigy 2), but this switch is crucial for hearing anything out of your speakers on Creative cards. For some people it worked in the On position. For others it worked in the Off position. So try it both ways. Hope this Helps, Stephen.