Ubuntu and Midi

[Robert S]

I've just got this to work after months of lack of success  :D  I've
just installed kubuntu.  My soundcard is reported as such by "lspci"
thus :

ultimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237
AC97 Audio Controller (rev 40)

ie - a cheap onboard card.  The procedure is:

Install timidity and freepats
Start up kde with sound server enabled
Enter this in a terminal:

$ timidity -iA -OR &

Start up kmid, select the timidity device, then start listening!

I'd like to get this started up automatically, but the arts server
needs to be running for it to work.  I haven't tried it with rosegarden
yet.

I've NEVER managed to get the "Test MIDI" working in the kcontrol sound
server applet - still doesn't.

I haven't seen MIDI working "out of the box" in any linux distro yet. 
Haven't played with jack yet.


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Robert S