[F8]: Getting MIDI player to work: HOW?

[Ric Moore]

On Tue, 2008-06-10 at 18:30 -0700, Dan Thurman wrote:

> > What is missing is the midi module, I think.  I just don't see it.
> > Perhaps I need to manually add this in? If so, how is this done?
> 
> Oh, I see the PA Device Chooser.  It appears as an applet.  Doh!
> Seems everything is there - just that there is no default server...
> Hm..
> 
> I forgot to add: /etc/modprobe:
> ==================
> alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel
> options snd-card-0 index=0
> options snd-hda-intel index=0
> 
> Hmm...  should there be a midi entry in there?

Native midi play, to me, it one of the Dark Arts solvable using timidity
instead. It's saved me a ton of grief. Do you have the timidity-patches
file installed?? That one is about 9 megs of sound fonts and there is
another one that I can't remember the name of that's a lot bigger. But,
you gotta have the sound fonts in order for it to tootle anything. I
hope this helps and someone volunteers the name of the rpm for the huge
soundfonts. Ah! Found it in my updates directory:

PersonalCopy-Lite-soundfont-4.1-3.fc7.noarch.rpm

Why the heck timidity isn't in the name of this file is kinda strange. A
grep on "timidity" would never find it. It's almost 15 megs worth! Lotsa
sound fonts in that one! I hope whoever maintains this package inserts
"timidity" somewhere in the file name. Ric



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