Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-multimedia (19 mails)

[Peter Vollebregt <pvollebr@xxxxxxxxx>]

chuck wrote:
>  Hi 
>
>  I'm trying to get sound working on Suse 10 on a card site for
> my wife before she goes back to winderz.
>   The site in question is "http://www.zworks.com/forever/ "
>    I  tryed other sites and the same thing ,, Please help 
>
>        TIA 
>            Chuck
>   
Chuck,

This site is using midi to play the music. This uses soundfonts to
create the sound (a bit like normal fonts to produce readable text).
Your soundcard can be able to support this (the default stuff on
motherboards normally not), but otherwise you need a piece of software
to create the sound.

The software you need probably is called 'timidity'. Install this if it
is not installed already.
When it works you can listen to midi music if you eneble timidity as the
helper application. For firefox/mozilla you click on one of the .midi
hyperlinks and tell the system once to open it via /usr/bin/timidity (my
system tried to do it wia amarok by default with no success). Afterwards
the browser will offer this as the default.

If it does not work check the setings from your soundcard via YaST.
'Enable sequencer' should be ticked. You can try to delete and reenable
your soundcard. When restarting the soundserver (as root 'rcalsasound
restart') it should work.

If not: first check if the sounds are not at a zero volume or muted
(normally the kmix mixer)
if still not: try to launch timidity manually via
/usr/bin/timidity -iA -B2,8 -Os -EFreverb=0


In Suse 9.1 timidity would not start automatically and i added an
executable file timidity.sh to my ~/.kde/Autostart folder with as content

/#!/bin/sh/
/#/
/#/
/usr/bin/timidity -iA -B2,8 -Os -EFreverb=0 *&*

HTH,
Peter Vollebregt