Correct Way to Enable Midi with SB PCI512

[Vic Ayres]

On Tue, 2004-11-02 at 11:09 +1100, Luke Yelavich wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 09:25:53AM EST, Vic Ayres wrote:
> > I'm new to Ubuntu and haven't much experience of Debian. I have a
> > SoundBlaster PCI512 soundcard and I need to enable Midi for jedabc to
> > work as I am used to.
> > 
> > I've searched and Googled, read various HOWTO's, but I can't find the
> > answer. At present, to be able to play Midi files I have to :-
> > sudo /usr/share/alsa-base/snddevices then
> > sfxload /usr/share/sounds/sf2/<mybank>.sf2
> > 
> > I'm sure there must be a really simple way to do this automagically. But
> 
> Have you ensured that you have the sequencer and MIDI modules loaded? It 
> seems tha tUbuntu doesn't load these by default. The one module I am 
> thinking of is snd-seq-midi

Thanks, Luke. Tried sudo modprobe snd-seq-midi but /dev/sequencer still
doesn't exist unless I run snddevices. There is no alsaconf (I've read
the reason why not) or sndconfig in Warty so I'm still stuck with my
inelegant kludge to play MIDI files.

-- 
Vic Ayres