Re: [linux-audio-user] YMFPCI hardware midi/snd-mp401-uart - Linux-audio-user

2 Sep 2003

In a message dated 9/1/03 12:43:37 AM Pacific Daylight Time, 
clemens(a)ladisch.de writes:

...
  snd-mpu401-uart is the driver for the external MIDI
port (you'd need a
 gameport/MIDI adapter for this). snd-rawmidi is an ALSA module
 handling device file management and buffering for MIDI ports.
 snd-opl3-lib is the driver for the OPL3 FM synth. 
Thanks, got it.  So if I wanted to deal with the FM sound quality I could use 
the legacy synth?

...
  I guess Muse uses the ALSA sequencer. Run
"aconnect -o" to see a list
 of output ports. 
This is the output of aconnect -o when both TiMidity and MusE are running:

[barton@localhost barton]$ aconnect -o
client 128: 'Client-128' [type=user]
    0 'TiMidity port 0 '
    1 'TiMidity port 1 '
client 129: 'MusE Sequencer' [type=user]
    0 'MusE Port 0     '

...
  Checking
/proc/asound/devices does not list any midi devices,  
 Did you specifiy the parameters for snd-ymfpci in modules.conf?
 (e.g. mpu_port=0x330 fm_port=0x388) 
No I didn't.  So to use alsa with the midi port that is on the motherboard I 
would need to configure the memory address mpu_port=0x330 in /etcmodules.conf? 
 Does the line need to go in a specific place, and is that the exact syntax?  
Is this documented somewhere?  I have installed alsa manually on this machine 
before (this time I used  the Planet RPMs and alsaconf) and I don't remember 
seeing anything that referrred to memory addresses for the midi ports.

Thanks,

Barton