Couldn't open /dev/sequencer

[Robert Storey]

On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 20:07:41 -0400
Arthur Pemberton <dalive at flashmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I was tring to play a .mid for the first time since installing FC3. I 
> use KDE, so I just browsed to the file with Konqueror, and double 
> clicked. KMix open and gave this error:
> 
> Couldn't open /dev/sequencer.
> Probably there is another program using it.
> 
> I also tried the following:
> 
> $ locate sequencer | grep dev
> /usr/share/doc/alsa-lib-devel-1.0.6/doxygen/html/group___sequencer.ht
> ml

I've seen the exact same error and was never able to get Kmid to work.
Fortunately, there is also "Timidity". I don't know if there is a way to
point-and-click Timidy, but it works fine at the command line:

  timidity mysong.mid

regards,
Robert