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Picked up what must have been the last of the jumpered ESS1688
soundcards and also a SB WaveBlaster II daughterboard.  Wavetable runs
great under Win95 but won't go work in Linux.  Plain old sound works
just fine, as does FM synthesis, using the stock free sound driver that
came with Linux.  I am using DMA1,IRQ10,IO220.  How can I get Linux to
use the wavetable daughterboard?  In Win95, I have to switch the mid
device to external midi rather than the fm synth setting.  Your comments
and suggestions appreciated.  I had heard something disturbing about the
WaveBlaster daughterboard not being kosher under Linux.  Thanks again

: Picked up what must have been the last of the jumpered ESS1688
: soundcards and also a SB WaveBlaster II daughterboard.  Wavetable runs
: great under Win95 but won't go work in Linux.  Plain old sound works
: just fine, as does FM synthesis, using the stock free sound driver that
: came with Linux.  I am using DMA1,IRQ10,IO220.  How can I get Linux to
: use the wavetable daughterboard?  In Win95, I have to switch the mid
: device to external midi rather than the fm synth setting.  Your comments
: and suggestions appreciated.  I had heard something disturbing about the
: WaveBlaster daughterboard not being kosher under Linux.  Thanks again

Make sure your MIDI driver is also enabled. Then use playmidi -e
<file.mid> to play the MIDI file back via the wave table synth. The "-e"
option tells playmidi to use the external MIDI port (which is where the
Waveblaster card is found).

Best regards,
Dev Mazumdar
4Front Technologies
http://wwww.4front-tech.com

Panu