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Re: silent midis

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From: Dimitri Maziuk
Date: Sun, 04 May 1997 00:00
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Sue Blake wrote:
...
> The only trouble is that no sound comes out :-(
> 
> I'm using an old model GUS (classic?) which plays all other types of sound
> files well under Linux, and midis too under dos/win/os2.
> 
> Maybe it needs its patches. If so, where do I put them and how do I feed
> them in?

Sound driver's docs are in /usr/src/linux/drivers/sound/Readme.*
(assuming you have kernel source in /usr/src/linux.)

Also, IIRC timidity doesn't need midi device to play midi files 
-- it converts them to wave and plays to /dev/audio (or something
like that.) 

HTH
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