Re: [Alsa-user] Sequencer not found

[Hactar <eb...@ga...>]

On Wed, 30 May 2001, David McClamrock wrote:

> It's shorter, all right--now, is it any more useful?  Here it is:

> write(2, "open sequencer: No such file or "..., 42open sequencer: No such
> file or directory

Nope, I don't see anything obvious.  Do you use devfs?  Jazz++ is using
/dev/snd/something.  Is everything OK with that file?

> >  Consider "playmidi -h" more authoritative than the man page, then.
>
> In "playmidi -h" I found the "-D x" flag for "output to midi device x"--but I
> still got the same result:
>
> [david@localhost music]$ playmidi -D /dev/sequencer water01.mid
> Playmidi 2.4 Copyright (C) 1994-1997 Nathan I. Laredo, AWE32 by Takashi Iwai
> This is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
> For details please see the file COPYING.
> playmidi: No playback device found.

Do you need to attach a device to a sound driver port, and then play to
that device?

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