Re: [Alsa-user] asfxload on 2.6.18.3

[Arthur M. <art...@in...>]

ael wrote, On 26/11/06 02:36:
> I have a AWE64 card:
> 
> kernel: isapnp: Card 'Creative SB AWE64  PnP'
> 
> I am having problems getting it to play midi files using aplaymidi,
> playmidi and the like. It has worked happily in the past.
> 
> Yesterday, after several hours of experimentation I mananaged to get
> asfxload to load fonts, and playmidi would then work with some of them.
> Since I was floundering around, I don't have a clear idea of what I did,
> but I certainly had to manually load a large number of modules before
> the messages like "No Emux synth hwdep device is found" from afsxload
> went away. (This is on a debian sarge system, but with stock 2.6.18.3
> kernel). Likewise, playmidi eventually stopped complaining "No playback
> device found". (strace showed at that point that /dev/sequencer was
> being opened successfully, but then a couple of ioctls failed.)
> 
> Above is background information and shows that the hardware is fine and
> can (almost) work with 2.6.18.3 with the modules that I have compiled.
> 
> Today, I had hoped to dig a bit deeper understand the problem, but I
> cannot even get as far as yesterday :-(

(I'm running Debian Unstable and have a SB Live! 5.1 model SB0220 - 
EMU10K1 chip).

I had problems when using ALSA modules compiled from package alsa-source 
against earlier versions of kernel 2.6.18 conflicting with a kernel 
compiled from linux-source 2.6.18-6 (which is based on 2.6.18.3).

To fix it, I recompiled the ALSA modules from alsa-source after 
linux-source 2.6.18-6 had been installed and unpacked.

Arthur.