/dev/sequencer- instead of /dev/sequencer

Penulci

I am running a 2.6.5 kernel and tried to setup MIDI support for for my SB-Live!.
Loading the soundfont tells me I lack of /dev/sequencer. I know this problem has been topic of several posts.

In my /dev I find /dev/sequencer- and I did nowhere see that someone else has this problem.

Even Google did not offer me any new ideas.

greetings, Michael

Breakman79 · n00b Joined: 11 Feb 2004 Posts: 15 Location: Arlington, VA

Ah, I had this very same problem. I got soundfonts working by having ALSA as a module instead of compiling it into the kernel. Once I set up alsa config file for emu10k1 in modules.d, it worked perfectly.

klaus · n00b Joined: 07 Mar 2004 Posts: 2

I could load the SF Bank with an Audigy card using alsa as a module (built-in isnt work properly) and the OSS sequencer emulation. Although MIDI doesn't work in SB Live! and Audigy too with ALSA see: http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/doc-php/template.php?company=Creative+Labs&card=Soundblaster+Live&chip=EMU10K1&module=emu10k

If you want to use MIDI on these sound cards you have to use a software synthesizer like timity++.

For a gentoo install go to http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/alsa-guide.xml#doc_chap4 in the Code Listing 4.3: Installing Timidity++.

PD: The ALSA group is working on the MIDI support for the emu10k module.

Penulci · Posted: Mon May 10, 2004 5:05 pm Post subject:

Thanx for your tipps. Of course I was running ALSA as modules (as nearly everything I do not permanently need).
Out of a sudden /dev/sequencer is present. It seems as if I just missed to run an update-modules once.

Thanx, Michael

pianosaurus · l33t Joined: 19 Apr 2004 Posts: 944 Location: Bash$

nhimf · n00b Joined: 07 May 2004 Posts: 5

A little tip with the sb live!:
I have the ssb live! platinum, wich works perfectly fine with linux (well mp3/wav & midi). The live drive isn't tested.

Just follow the alsa installation guide wich is found in the docs part:
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/alsa-guide.xml

I'm running 2.6.5 too, and all worked, except the emu10k1 apps in that guide, cause they won't work with the 2.6 kernel.

buddyabaddon · n00b Joined: 05 May 2004 Posts: 3 Location: USA

Loading the soundfont as in the ALSA guide, "sfxload /usr/share/sfbank/8MBGMSFX.SF2", also gave me the error about the lack of /dev/sequencer.

Try "asfxload" instead of "sfxload". From the sfxload man page, basically:
sfxload - for OSS
asfxload - for ALSA

This worked for me since I didn't include OSS emulation. Hope that helps clear some things up.