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by **Young4er** » Sun, 04 Nov 2001 08:19:51

Hi,

I have a Linux system composed of an Asus K7M mobo with an AMD Ahtlon CPU.
The machine is running Mandrake 8.1. I have upgraded the alsa driver from
the CVS tree. When I did "pmidi -l", I got the following in return:

Port Client name Port name
64:0 External MIDI 0 MIDI 0-0

This means the ALSA driver has correctly initialized a MIDI port. However,
when I executed "pmidi -p 64:0 filename.mid", the pmidi just sitted there
and no sound came out from the speakers. I had the alsamixer running and
the volume is set 50% to 100% and still no sound came out. After a while,
pmidi terminated with no error and I saw the shell prompt. I guessed the
pmidi played the songs but the soundcard did not deliver the sound to the
speakers. Can anyone please tell me what's wrong? BTW, "kmid" shows no
midi ports at all.

TIA.

by **Gregory Davi** » Sun, 04 Nov 2001 08:44:30

> I have upgraded the alsa driver from
> the CVS tree.

Try a stable release... currently it is 0.5.x. The 0.9beta series looks
mature, but they seem to be adding support for new cards fairly frequently.
Also, the KDE desktop environment only natively uses 0.5.x; therefore if
you grabbed a cvs version, kmid will have unpredictable behavior.

Greg

by **Young4er** » Sun, 04 Nov 2001 09:34:32

>> I have upgraded the alsa driver from
>> the CVS tree.

> Try a stable release... currently it is 0.5.x. The 0.9beta series looks
> mature, but they seem to be adding support for new cards fairly
> frequently.
> Also, the KDE desktop environment only natively uses 0.5.x; therefore if
> you grabbed a cvs version, kmid will have unpredictable behavior.

> Greg

Same thing. That's why I upgraded to ALSA CVS. BTW, pmidi will not work
with ALSA 0.5x.

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