Multimedia :: USB Midi interfaces



Sorry I'm in the wrong forum...no wonder I don't have the program beaver!
I'll do that probe when I get back and report the results.
I did run /install the Alsa utilities and set up my soundcard...but there's no lights on the M audio Midisport.

At least it is supported....that's great news.
Slightly off topic Juanito, but I wanted some kind of thing where I can just switch on a laptop, linux boots with  the usb midi thing working, and then I can play piano using something like timidity and soundfonts....imagine where you don't have a display...that's the goal....I do appreciate there are other music distros around...but they all run from CD...I want to build a silent PC running from a USB stick...that's why I'm trying to get this going...so if anyone has any advice about this ( or getting soundfonts to work with DSL or DSL-N) I'd appreciate any advice............
Thank you
Ok finally getting somewhere.

Here's the result:

Script started on Thu Aug  9 09:41:27 2001
dsl@dslbox:~$ lsmod

Module                  Size  Used by

snd_intel8x0           30528  0

snd_ac97_codec         72312  1 snd_intel8x0

snd_pcm_oss            47264  0

snd_pcm                77316  3 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss

snd_timer              23556  1 snd_pcm

snd_page_alloc         11268  2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm

snd_mixer_oss          18304  1 snd_pcm_oss

snd                    46820  6 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mixer_oss

af_packet              24328  0

i810_audio             36116  0

ac97_codec             20236  1 i810_audio

soundcore              11104  2 snd,i810_audio

3c59x                  42024  0

mii                     8320  1 3c59x

intel_agp              22300  1

agpgart                31440  1 intel_agp

hw_random               8468  0

i2c_i801               11404  0

i2c_core               20992  1 i2c_i801

parport_pc             38724  0

parport                33480  1 parport_pc

8250                   42844  0

serial_core            21120  1 8250

usbhid                 42464  0

pcmcia                 23696  2

yenta_socket           22152  1

rsrc_nonstatic         14080  1 yenta_socket

pcmcia_core            43268  3 pcmcia,yenta_socket,rsrc_nonstatic

video                  18308  0

thermal                14984  0

processor              24520  1 thermal

fan                     7300  0

container               7296  0

button                  9104  0

battery                12420  0

ac                      7556  0

genrtc                 12060  0

unionfs                63000  1

cloop                  29984  1

sbp2                   24584  0

ohci1394               33460  0

ieee1394              297432  2 sbp2,ohci1394

usb_storage            68544  0

ohci_hcd               21764  0

uhci_hcd               31632  0

ehci_hcd               32136  0

usbcore               102492  6 usbhid,usb_storage,ohci_hcd,uhci_hcd,ehci_hcd

dsl@dslbox:~$ lsusb

Bus 002 Device 002: ID 0930:6533 Toshiba Corp. 512M USB Stick

Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000  

Bus 001 Device 010: ID 099a:5321 Zippy Technology Corp.

Bus 001 Device 008: ID 0763:1001 Midiman Midisport 2x2

Bus 001 Device 006: ID 05e3:0605 Genesys Logic, Inc.

Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000  

dsl@dslbox:~$
Script done on Thu Aug  9 09:41:41 2001

When I do a modprobe usb-audio it says it can't find anything......
Thanks!
The modules we're interested in are:

Module                  Size  Used by
snd_intel8x0           30528  0
snd_ac97_codec         72312  1 snd_intel8x0
snd_pcm_oss            47264  0
snd_pcm                77316  3 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer              23556  1 snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc         11268  2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
snd_mixer_oss          18304  1 snd_pcm_oss
snd                    46820  6 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mixer_oss
i810_audio             36116  0
ac97_codec             20236  1 i810_audio
soundcore              11104  2 snd,i810_audio

Looking at the list, it seems as though your machine has some kind of Intel sound device integrated on the motherboard (like my laptop). It also looks like DSL-N has loaded both the OSS and the ALSA drivers for the Intel sound device - or maybe you loaded the alsa extension and then chose the right-click menu item to load alsa?

I think the first thing to do is to unload the OSS drivers:
Code Sample
# rmmod -f i810_audio
# rmmod -f ac97_codec

Does your machine play music (i.e. is there any sound) if you try something like this?
Code Sample
# mplayer -ao alsa /path-to-file/music.mp3
Hi again
You were correct - I do have a laptop with onobard intel and I did install Alsa...sorry if this confused you even more. I've removed the OSS drivers and when I try to play an mp3 with alsa I get this: (It doesn't play):

Script started on Thu Aug  9 21:52:33 2001
dsl@dslbox:~$ mplayer -ao alsa/http://www.archive.org./details/timkaufmanntestmp3

MPlayer dev-CVS--3.3.5 © 2000-2005 MPlayer Team

CPU: Intel Pentium 4/Celeron 4 Northwood; Pentium 4 EE/Xeon Prestonia,Gallatin (Family: 15, Stepping: 7)

Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes

CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1

Compiled for Debian



This codecs.conf is too old and incompatible with this MPlayer release! at line 6

Usage:   mplayer [options] [url|path/]filename



Basic options: (complete list in the man page)

-vo <drv[:dev]>  select video output driver & device ('-vo help' for a list)

-ao <drv[:dev]>  select audio output driver & device ('-ao help' for a list)

vcd://<trackno>   play (S)VCD (Super Video CD) track (raw device, no mount)

dvd://<titleno>   play DVD title from device instead of plain file

-alang/-slang    select DVD audio/subtitle language (by 2-char country code)

-ss <timepos>    seek to given (seconds or hh:mm:ss) position

-nosound         do not play sound

-fs              fullscreen playback (or -vm, -zoom, details in the man page)

-x <x> -y <y>    set display resolution (for use with -vm or -zoom)

-sub <file>      specify subtitle file to use (also see -subfps, -subdelay)

-playlist <file> specify playlist file

-vid x -aid y    select video (x) and audio (y) stream to play

-fps x -srate y  change video (x fps) and audio (y Hz) rate

-pp <quality>    enable postprocessing filter (details in the man page)

-framedrop       enable frame dropping (for slow machines)



Basic keys: (complete list in the man page, also check input.conf)

<-  or  ->       seek backward/forward 10 seconds

down or up       seek backward/forward  1 minute

pgdown or pgup   seek backward/forward 10 minutes

< or >           step backward/forward in playlist

p or SPACE       pause movie (press any key to continue)

q or ESC         stop playing and quit program

+ or -           adjust audio delay by +/- 0.1 second

o                cycle OSD mode:  none / seekbar / seekbar + timer

* or /           increase or decrease PCM volume

x or z           adjust subtitle delay by +/- 0.1 second

r or t           adjust subtitle position up/down, also see -vf expand



* * * SEE THE MAN PAGE FOR DETAILS, FURTHER (ADVANCED) OPTIONS AND KEYS * * *



dsl@dslbox:~$
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