On Wednesday 30 June 2004 08:18 am, Basil Chupin wrote:
BandiPat wrote:
On Tuesday 29 June 2004 03:56 pm, gustavo wrote:
BandiPat wrote:
9.1 users,
Did anyone ever figure out why YaST2 doesn't find the soundfonts from the Creative cds when ask to load soundfonts? I thought maybe something had been corrected with a recent update of something, but it still seems unable to locate the fonts or load them.
thx, Lee [...]
John Lamb on 28/05/04 gave the way he overcame this problem. Look for his message in the archive.
Cheers. ============
Thanks Basil, That helped to actually run down the solution. John was on the right track, but it was simpler than that even. I'll go through the steps for anyone wanting to get soundfonts and midi working. We first noticed a few bugs in /etc/init.d/alsasound file. If you edit that file, search for all instances of "tmidity" and change it to "timidity" as it should be. That doesn't really have anything to do with the soundfonts, but while I was there, no reason not to fix them, right? ;o) Next, as John Lamb pointed out, copy your sound fonts, from your creative disc or other source, to the /usr/share/sfbank/creative/ directory. Next go to the /etc/sysconfig/sound file and add the soundfonts to the line: SOUNDFONT_FILES="8MBGMSFX.SF2 4GMGSMT.SF2 2GMGSMT.SF2" List each soundfont file separated with a space, there is no need to set the path as that is done elsewhere, so only the soundfont names are needed here. Don't overload this as usually these 3 will give you everything you need. Now you can go to a shell as root and issue these commands: /etc/init.d/alsasound stop, then start, to restart it. You can't use "restart" for this, as some things don't work with that. You should have everything working now. If KMid does not give you audio still, change the midi device to the port 0 rather than "rawmidi" and things should kick off nicely. These midi songs sound much better with all the instruments now, rather than just piano. ;o) Happy midi song listening! Lee -- --- KMail v1.6.2 --- SuSE Linux Pro v9.1 --- Registered Linux User #225206 On any other day, that might seem strange...