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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Wed, 11 May 2005, David Moberg wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "sindi keesan" <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>
>
> > I tried to convert it with mcmenu (a former list member J. P.
> > compiled it for us) and 'something is wrong with the package'.
>
> Anyone know what happened to JP?
>
> > I should skip trying to compile in BL3 for a while.  Someone remind
> > me to STOP starting new projects for a few months.
>
> I will postpone building MPlayer, since what you have works.


But that is not a NEW project!  (Are you also starting too many projects?)

> > But I can't get playmidi 2.4.9 libc6 to play a midi yet.
> >
> > mknod /dev/sequencer c 14 1
> >
> > playmidi jazz.mid  'no playback device found'  (trying to use a default)
> > playmidi -f jazz.mid   ( -f to play on a non-midi soundcard)
> >         'no playback device found'
>
> Assuming you have a Vibra16, is the opl3.o module inserted?


No.  I just switched CDs and tried to insmod it.  This is where modprobe 
might be handy.  Unresolved symbols:
sound_unload_synthdev
sound_notifier_chain_register (I should install gpm in BL3)
conf_printf2
sequencer_init
sound_locker
sound_alloc_synthdev
note_to_freq
synth_devs
computer_finetune

What other module do I need.

I am told, after making /dev/sequencer:
Cannot open /dev/sequencer: No such device.

This card (Vibra AWE32, I think) works fine with sb.o and mplayer and sox 
and mpg123.  I also have a CT AWE32 and an AWE64 that works only in 
Windows but maybe will work with playmidi, if anything does.  In DOS pmb 
works with the awe32 cards.

By the way, I am now trying to use playmidi in BL3 because I was able to 
compile it by remarking out or otherwise removing anything to do with X11, 
gtk, svgalib.  # in front of some lines, split parts off of others.  Left 
the .lame business and removed the X11 and svgalib stuff.  I got a 
playmidi but make install does not do anything.  Big deal, I can put it 
into /usr/local/bin myself or copy what the BL2 installation did or figure 
out Makefile's approach.  There is a man page, and some drum sounds and 
sample midi files.  I don't usually listen to drums anyway and was aiming 
at piano and harpsichord.

This binary is about 47K, which is not smaller than before, but I did not 
get splaymidi or xplaymidi along with it.  Lots of space saved ;=)

Neither version is playing for me yet, this later BL3 one (for AWE32 as 
default) or the BL2 one (with -f for FM synthesis as output).


It is nice to know that this approach to remaking a Makefile works in BL3 
so we don't need to install Xaw and svgalib in order to compile a sound 
player.  It is always exciting when something starts to work (even if it 
won't play yet).

What other modules does opl3.o need?  How can I query the module?