Re: [fluid-dev] no midi on linux

[Eric Van Buggenhaut]

On Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 11:28:09AM -0700, Josh Green wrote:
> On Sat, 2003-10-11 at 16:21, Julien Claassen wrote:
> > Hi!
> >   Your midishare problem: I think you'd have to install the proper kernel
> > sources and configure them. Maybe you can have a look in your /boot dir and
> > find a config file for your actual kernel configuration. At least that's 
> > where
> > suse keeps it.
> >   Did you install alsa properly with midi support (sequencer)?
> >   I think it usually works that way:
> >   you start fluidsynth and see which port it uses (usually 128 or so), you 
> > can
> > see this with something like:
> >   aconnect -l
> >   Then you can use another program - like pmidi - and call it like that:
> >   pmidi -p 128:0 file.mid
> >   This would mean, that pmidi plays to port 128 (fluidsynth). If you wanna
> > play it realtime, you can simply do something like:
> >   aconnect 64 128
> >   Meaning connect the midiport on your first card (usually 64) to 
> > fluidsynth.
> > You'll find your hardware midiports as well with aconnect -l.
> >   I hope that helps.
> >   Kindest regards
> >        Julien
> > 
> 
> Yeah, don't mess with MidiShare if you are using Linux. Get ALSA working
> instead. There is lots of info on http://www.alsa-project.org for
> getting things running. I'm sure you can probably just "apt-get install
> alsa" on Debian? Once ALSA is doing its thing, then you want to
> recompile FluidSynth so it knows about ALSA (make sure it does at the
> end of the ./configure stage).

The debian package is built with alsa support already enabled.

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