Re: [Alsa-user] ALSA MIDI

[Frans K. <ket...@wa...>]

Christopher Deckard wrote:
> 
> Hi, im running alsa on a box with RH 6.2.  i've got the sound working ok for
> the cs4272 chip, but i can't seem to get midi to work.  i installed playmidi
> successfully, but when i try to play a midi file, i get "no output devices
> available" or somesuch.  doing a lsmod shows that i have some midi modules
> installed. . . in my conf.modules file, i have mpu_irq = 9 and  mpu_io=0x300
> (there may be typos there)
> 
> alsa midi is unclear in the documentation, and i'm not even sure if it's
> supported.  anyone have any thoughts/suggestions?

Hi, I think there is no ALSA supported synthesizer on your card.
mpu_irq = 9 and  mpu_io=0x300 have to do with external MIDI (like
sending MIDI data to an external synthesizer with playmidi -e.
You can use Timidity or kmidi to play MIDI files.

    -Frans