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Tomator
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 Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2005 10:34 pm Post subject: [Solved] Sound Problem |
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Hi! I am having some problems getting midi files to play. I have a SoundBlaster Audigy, and I followed the ALSA guide.
pmidi -l gives
| Code: | Port Client name Port name
64:0 Audigy MPU-401 (UART) Audigy MPU-401 (UART)
64:32 Audigy MPU-401 (UART) Audigy MPU-401 #2
65:0 Emu10k1 WaveTable Emu10k1 Port 0
65:1 Emu10k1 WaveTable Emu10k1 Port 1
65:2 Emu10k1 WaveTable Emu10k1 Port 2
65:3 Emu10k1 WaveTable Emu10k1 Port 3
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lsmod gives
| Code: | Module Size Used by
snd_seq_midi 6816 0
snd_emu10k1_synth 7040 0
snd_emux_synth 36352 1 snd_emu10k1_synth
snd_seq_virmidi 6400 1 snd_emux_synth
snd_seq_midi_emul 7168 1 snd_emux_synth
snd_pcm_oss 49572 0
snd_mixer_oss 18176 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_seq_oss 33024 0
snd_seq_midi_event 6528 3 snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_virmidi,snd_seq_oss
snd_seq 51344 8 snd_seq_midi,snd_emux_synth,snd_seq_virmidi,snd_seq_midi_emul,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_emu10k1 93444 1 snd_emu10k1_synth
snd_rawmidi 20512 3 snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_virmidi,snd_emu10k1
snd_seq_device 7180 7 snd_seq_midi,snd_emu10k1_synth,snd_emux_synth,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_emu10k1,snd_rawmidi
snd_ac97_codec 73952 1 snd_emu10k1
snd_pcm 86148 3 snd_pcm_oss,snd_emu10k1,snd_ac97_codec
snd_timer 21764 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc 7940 2 snd_emu10k1,snd_pcm
snd_util_mem 3712 2 snd_emux_synth,snd_emu10k1
snd_hwdep 7684 2 snd_emux_synth,snd_emu10k1
snd 48484 13 snd_emux_synth,snd_seq_virmidi,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_emu10k1,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_hwdep
fglrx 237152 9
sata_sis 4608 0
sata_sx4 11652 0
ipr 52256 0
sd_mod 12928 0
tiglusb 8260 0
agpgart 29228 0
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I have a soundfont (I even put it into /usr/share/sfbank) which I loaded with asfxload.
Music controls in alsamixer are unmuted and set to 100; amixer shows:
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Simple mixer control 'Music',0
Capabilities: pvolume cvolume
Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
Limits: Playback 0 - 100 Capture 0 - 100
Front Left: Playback 100 [100%] Capture 0 [0%]
Front Right: Playback 100 [100%] Capture 0 [0%]
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All the other sounds are fine. I can play mp3's, wav's, etc. The only thing wrong here is midi playback. I know I can get this to work with timidity, but it seems like it should work as it is. What am I missing?
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| Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2005 5:45 pm Post subject: |
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try muting or unmuting output jack, it worked for me
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| Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2005 11:31 pm Post subject: |
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| I just unmuted every single control and set them all to 100, but still no sound. |
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| Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2005 12:30 am Post subject: |
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check your sound permissions then ...
and check all the sound managers like gnome kde aumix alsa, etc all those maybe one of those is still muted
what does etc/init.d/alsasound restart reply to you ??
and lspci ?
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Sound permissions:
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crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 14 Dec 31 1969 admmidi
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 12 Dec 31 1969 adsp
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 13 Dec 31 1969 amidi
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 4 Dec 31 1969 audio
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 9 Dec 31 1969 dmmidi
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 3 Dec 31 1969 dsp
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 2 Dec 31 1969 midi
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 0 Dec 31 1969 mixer
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 1 Dec 31 1969 sequencer
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 8 Dec 31 1969 sequencer2
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The relevant sound managers are unmuted.
/etc/init.d/alsasound restart:
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* WARNING: you are stopping a boot service.
* Storing ALSA Mixer Levels... [ ok ]
* Unloading ALSA... [ ok ]
* Unloading ALSA modules... [ ok ]
* Loading ALSA modules...
* Loading: snd-card-0... [ ok ]
* Loading: snd-seq-oss... [ ok ]
* Loading: snd-pcm-oss... [ ok ]
* Loading: snd-emu10k1-synth... [ ok ]
* Loading: snd-seq-midi... [ ok ]
* Restoring Mixer Levels... [ ok ]
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lspci:
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0000:00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) SMBus Controller (rev 02)
0000:01:01.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Audigy (rev 04)
0000:01:01.2 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Creative Labs SB Audigy FireWire Port (rev 04)
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yes it seems the only thing i now think it may be is something you missed on your kernel or a USE that you should activate on the program you want to play midi , check those 2 , everything seems ok, try your kernel configuration and your USE
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I checked the kernel configuration and sure enough, I did not have the MPU401 UART driver compiled.
So I compiled it as a module and made sure it loads at boot. Now I have another sound module loaded up, but still no MIDI playback.
When a MIDI is supposed to be playing, this is what "cat /proc/asound/card0/midi0" says:
| Code: | Audigy MPU-401 (UART)
Output 0
Tx bytes : 7532
Mode : native
Buffer size : 4096
Avail : 4096
Input 0
Rx bytes : 0
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And when I stop playing:
| Code: | Audigy MPU-401 (UART)
Output 0
Tx bytes : 8003
Input 0
Rx bytes : 0
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They're different, so something must be working right!
Unfortunately, there is still no sound. Are there other files I could check to get closer to the problem? |
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| Posted: Sun Mar 20, 2005 11:17 pm Post subject: |
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Actually, recompiling the kernel did the trick. Using a different soundfont and port 65:0 instead of 64:0,
I was finally able to extract midi sound from my speakers  . Thanks for your help, mascanho! |
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you welcome, any time 
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