[linux-audio-user] MIDI stopped working

[MarC]

En/na John Check ha escrit:

>On Saturday 26 February 2005 08:31 pm, MarC wrote:
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>>I upgraded my debian testing and now MIDI doesn't work anymore.
>>Before I could load soundfonts normally and now I get:
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>>marc at marcbcn:~$ sfxload
>>No AWE synth device is found
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>>any clue about how to solve it? (google wasn't enough...)
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>>thanks in advance,
>>I wouldn't be a debian user without such great mailing lists as LAU and
>>debian-users...
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>I'm running unstable but, assuming it's a SoundBlaster Live!, you need the
>emu10k1-synth module loaded.
>Easy fix is load it with modconf, an arguably "better" solution is to add a
>post-install line  to /etc/modutils/alsa:
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>post-install snd-emu10k1 modprobe snd-emu10k1-synth
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>don't forget to run update-modules. I load my default soundfont the same way.
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>I'll indulge myself with some pedanticism here and mention FYI that MIDI
>doesn't make any noise. It's yer wavetable that stopped working... Anyway
>loading the wavetable module is what you need.
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oh I have now realised that you answered my email before I posted the 
"No AWE synth..." version of it
(I got lost with so many emails and with my mail server which I blamed 
for not delivering my email...)

many thanks. you were right and your solution may be more elegant than 
adding to /etc/modules...