Ok everyone here is my question! After updating to the lastest kernel 2.4.18-39 the other day and the new alsa files there on Mantel's site, I lost my sound. Seemed everytime YaST2 tried to setup, it was missing the snd-card-emu10k1 module it needed. Well, as I found out later it was indeed gone and was now the snd-emu10k1 module and I needed to run "alsaconf" as root in a console to get my new settings for my Creative PCI512 card. This worked great to give me sound back and getting alsa working again. Now the problem is and question is, how do I get the rest going like midi? I still cannot use YaST2 as it still complains about the missing module, snd-card-emuk101, but YaST2 does do the complete setup for midi and such too. So what do you do? Make a link somewhere? Go back to an earlier kernel version? Thoughts & suggestions welcomed. :o) Patrick -- ---KMail 1.3.2--- SuSE Linux v7.3 Pro--- Registered Linux User #225206 Magic Page Products -- Amiga-SuSE-PC Sales & Service URL: http://home.sprintmail.com/~tracerb
On Fri, 22 Mar 2002 17:08:08 -0500 Patrick <tracerb@sprintmail.com> wrote:
Now the problem is and question is, how do I get the rest going like midi?
If you want to use the internal synth, you will have to load some sound fonts by using sfxload which is part of the awefx package. You can either use the sound fonts from your Sblive! CD or download some from the Net. I know that you are using the alsa.rpm package from Mantel and after looking at the init script (vid. /etc/alsa.d/emu10k1), it looks like it will load soundfonts at boot time if you put them in the following directories: /usr/share/sounds/sf2 /usr/share/sfbank /usr/local/lib/sfbank /usr/share/sfbank/creative /usr/local/lib/sfbank/creative You can play the midi file by using pmidi located at: http://www.parabola.demon.co.uk/alsa/pmidi.html You can also use Timidity with the internal synth as an ALSA sequencer client. The setup is a bit more complicated and could be found at: http://www.parabola.demon.co.uk/alsa/timid.html Timidity, which you will find on your SuSE CD's, when not used as an ALSA client will play midi files on any soundcard by converts it to wav as output. That being said, I myself don't use the internal synth because I find straight Timidity with a huge Gus patch set that I found on the Net to be superior (less cheesy) to the included soundfont from the Sblive! CD and any free soundfonts that I found on the Net. I hope this will help you. Charles -- The box saids Windows XP or better, so I installed Linux
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