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No, it's not about muting since loading it at console manually worked as always.

DragonMage: The site you sent me is awesome! :D It looks like we need to discuss about VGM in a separate thread. I created one at the Off Topic Forum: VGM Thread. Anyway, any feedback on this mini-howto is really appreciated :) .

chalex20: So did this work for you? If so I might need to try again....

Man let me try it with moz 1.1 first :shock: . You are RIGHT. Using moz 1.1 has no problem. Time to file a bug report on 1.2 beta :arrow: . EDIT: Just filed the 181439th bug :P . EDIT: Just received email from bugzilla, the bug will be fixed in version 1.2 final. :D

You need to look for ppc entry when downloading a RPM, For eg. GAIM at SF.NET You need to download gaim-0.59.6-1.ppc.rpm instead of the other usual entry. If it does not exist, then the hope will be on compiling source code or rebuliding a src.rpm - if it's available. I will recommend wait for MDK 9.1 or use Yellow Dog Linux for PPC. I heard they are both good for Mac users.

You wish :P . Try downloading a rpm file at a Sourceforge website, say GAIM GAIM at SF.NET I am in mozilla.org 1.2 beta, and shift key does not work :( .

I am interested to look at the Japanese VGM music sites you mentioned. Those Falcom commercial MIDI archives are really good, then again they are not free. SB Live costs less than 30 bucks, with it there's no need to play MIDI with expensive equipment like that. With some big soundfont (30MB+), it can indeed sound even better, I am impressed and satisfied. Those MIDIs I recommend in the post above are really good (as I have listened to them :) ). Give them a try, the Zelda64 and FF 1-7 Mix are of exceptional quality.

MDK9 with KDE 3 seems to be able to improve on this. Copy and paste worked across different applications such as GTK, KDE, Mozilla.org, etc.

Wow, that's a LOT of midi files. Hey just get a SB Live :wink: . The OEM version should cost only US$20-30. It only comes with the card and the SB Live CD, which will be enough :) . LinuxExplorer: That's a good idea. Or we can start a new thread on discussing the autoloading issue.

Not so soon. NV30 is currently a paper-release. No hardware site I have known gets their hands on TESTING the card out yet. Well, let's hope more 3D Linux titles will be out there in the future.

TO-DO (4) If you happen to like VGM (Video Game Music), here are some MID files I will highly recommend you all to try them out just for listening pleasure (PS. As long as these MID files are for personal non-profit use there should not be any copyright problem, since they are created & arranged by independent artists from scratch): EDIT: VGMusic.com is blocking external link, so you may need to check out the MID files by navigating thru the site starting at: www.vgmusic.com Console>Nintendo>Gamecube>Super Smash Bros. Melee 1. Princess Peach's Castle (ssbm_peachcastle.mid) 2. Saria's Song (ssbm_sariasongv_2.mid) 3. Trophy's Tussle (ssbm_trophy_tussle.mid) Console>Sony>Playstation>Chrono Cross 1. Another Aruni (cc_another_aruni.mid) 2. Drown Valley (drownval_V1_0_1.mid) 3. Home Guldove (hguldove_V1_0_1.mid) 4. Home Mabuure (ccross_Home_Mabuure.mid) 5. Voyage to Another World (ccross_Voyage~Another_World.mid) Console>Nintendo>N64>Snowboard Kid 1. Grassland (Grassland.mid) 2. Sunny Mountain (Sunny_Mountain.mid) Console>Nintendo>N64>Legend of Zelda 1. Hydule Field > Version #1 (Hyrule_feild_4_Concert.mid) > Version #2 (zd64r54f.mid) 2. Kokiri Forest (z64kokri.mid) 3. Gerudo Desert (z64gerudo.mid) Medley Final Fantasy 1-7 Mix (FFMix20.mid)

DOlson: That sounds a good idea. Still I want to figure out those TO-DO stuff before I make a final version. As for formatting I like the current step by step layout, but I guess it's just a personal preference anyway. Well, if the txtplay seg fault is figured out and debugged, a mdk-rpm package can be created and this mini-howto can be updated (or even simplified without the step 5) later on. As for Bass and Treble, tkmidi supports Bass and Treble, just turn it on at Display > Volume.

Yes, this is a BIG problem. All those RPM files from sourceforge are NOT working when I tried to download them. After certain investigation it turns out that RPM stands for BOTH: 1) RedHat Package Manager 2) Real Player Metafile Hence when you click on a rpm file the Real Player plugin intercepts it and try to start Real Player - only to find that the meta-content does not match and the browser just stalled. Workaround for the moment I just remove the Real Player web plugin (rpnp.so, raclass.zip) from the mozilla plugins directory. Any other workaround suggestions?

I just found out Quanta 3 is installed on MDK 9 by default. You can locate it at K Start > Networking > WWW > Quanta Plus It should be Quanat 3 pre-1 version.

Actually I have tried something like this in modules.conf, which did not work: post-install snd-emu10k1-synth /bin/sfxload some_path/8MBGMSFX.SF2 So, may I ask, what does "-V100" parameter mean here? Mystified: No problem :D . Actually I found out there's a "Tips, Tricks and FAQ" forum only after I posted this :P . You can move this post to there if you feel appropriate. Also I would like to ask others to help test out the procedure in this mini-FAQ or help making those TO-DOs work. Thanks a lot!

SB Live/Audigy MIDI mini-how-to with ALSA Before you start, please note that: (1) SB Extigy discussion goes here. (2) SB Audigy LS (and LS only) goes here. (3) Dell model of SB Live! will be supported starting with ALSA 1.0.6. To users of Mandrake Linux 10 or later, you are now advised to check out this article instead: https://mandrivausers.org/index.php?showtopic=22604 ========================================================== Ok, the mini-how-to starts here: >> Required package/file/programs/libraries << 1) awesfx rpm 2) awesfx-devel rpm 3) soundfont (*.sf2) eg. 8MGMSFX.SF2 from the SB Live CD 4) To compile the GUI MIDI players You need these programs installed on your system: gcc make xmkmf Tk & Tcl libraries And some knowledge on editing & compiling source files :P . 5) *.mid files for playback >> Steps for installation << The following steps have only been tested with MDK 8.2, 9.0 & 9.1. Your mileage may vary with other Linux distributions. #1. Make sure ALSA driver* is properly installed for SB Live/Audigy (module: snd-emu10k1, NOT audigy) Note: Mandrake 9.1 by default loads OSS as sound driver using 'audigy' module, as many SB Live/Audigy users have experienced. Please check out this post for how to switch back to ALSA. If you need help on compiling & installing ALSA please refer to the ALSA driver page: -> Emu10k1 ALSA driver & module compilation and installation * Since I have only tested it on the 0.9 series so I do not know if it works for 0.5 series. Also there are reports that the ALSA driver caused sound delay in games, but in my experience if you compile from the source, the delay will be greatly reduced (to nil in some case). So I recommend installing from the source. However, if your current ALSA 0.9+ version is running fine I don't see the need & risk to tinker with it. I just use the default setup as it comes in MDK9.1 with ALSA 0.9 rc8. #2. Install "awesfx" and "awesfx-devel" rpm package, both are coming with MDK9/9.1 CDs, MDK 8.2 users need to look for awesfx-devel package from rpmfind.net (click the link below) -> awesfx-0.4.4 rpm -> awesfx-devel-0.4.4 rpm #3. Copy the soundfont file from the SB Live CD to your harddrive, I recommend 8MBGMSFX.SF2, it produces better sound quality in my opinion. Here are some suggested locations: ~/ (user home directory, however this will restrict access of the soundfont to that account) /opt /etc/midi #4. Go to the SB AWE32/64 Sound Driver for Linux / FreeBSD page. Download AWEMidi Player source tarball package and extract it. -> awemidi-0.4.3c.tgz #5. Procedure for compile & install 5.1 - Edit lmakefile (either in console or X-Window) In the directory where awemidi-0.4.3c.tgz is extracted, edit the file "lmakefile" => On line 48, where AWEINCDIR = $(INSTDIR)/include/awe modify it to AWEINCDIR = /usr/include/awe => For MDK 8.2 users ONLY: go to line 106, where TKLIBS = -L/usr/X11R6/lib -ltk -ltcl $(XLIB) -ldl change it to TKLIBS = -ltk8.3 -ltcl8.3 -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lX11 -ldl => Save the file after modification. 5.2 - Compile and install (in console) Launch the terminal/console, change to the directory where awemidi is extracted. Enter root mode (su), execute the following command in order (please refer to the INSTALL file) xmkmf make all make install Installation Complete! #6. Procedure for playing midi files 6.1 Loading soundfont Execute in console: sfxload (insert pathname)/8MBGMSFX.SF2 6.2 Midi playback program 6.2.1 Under console - use drvmidi drvmidi filename.mid - where filename.mid is the mid file you have. drvmidi -h - to look for other options available 6.2.2 For X-Windows (KDE, Gnome, IceWM,... etc.) Open a console in X-Windows, type tkmidi Now you have a GUI MIDI player for your SB Live/Audigy on Linux! You may create desktop shortcuts to load the soundfont & MIDI player at ease. #7. TO-DOs 1) To figure out how to auto-load soundfont at boot 2) To create a rpm for this awemidi package (need help on this) 3) Out of the 4 binaries produced (drvmidi, tkmidi, miditext, txtplay), txtplay produces seg fault - although I don't use it, it could be useful to investigate and debug if a rpm packge is to be made and submit as contribs to MDK. 4) A list of links to great midi files for testing would be nice :D 5) Acknowledgement: - Thank you very much to Takashi Iwai for the help on modifying lmakefile. - MandrakeSoft also deserves credits for making the awesfx rpm packages easily accessible. - Thanks to LinuxExplorer for reminding me to write this how-to :) . - The SB Live MIDI function has been tested under Rosegarden-4 ver 0.9, and it worked flawlessly :D

Did you try out the texstar RPM?

A description and brief review of a program called Mondo Rescue for Linux that does much of what Norton Ghost does for Windows PCS. It literally backs up all your Linux partition and data to couple CDs and restore them later on. Check it out: 1. Reader review: Backup and restore with Mondo Rescue http://newsforge.com/newsforge/02/11/18/1446257.shtml 2. Mondo Rescue: About page http://www.microwerks.net/~hugo/about/about.html

And don't forget the GPLed TTF for Indian languages from the FSF India site.

I have a question. Does the retail PowerPack version better than the download version in this respect? Since it come out almost a month later - according to the news.

No money is enough to make monopoly legal and acceptable for the public interest.

Wait a minute, are you saying AIDS and Linux competing in the same market :P ?

Can't blow the fun, please read this article: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=6452

How's the mixer setting? Try running KMix and see if the channel is muted or not.

Not really, I think you can run it within a Linux console or something. Just that the function is still limited by the free DOS kernel and utils, whether you are running it under Linux or not.