mousematt

I've got rosegarden and downloaded some patch sets for timidity and my thousands of MIDIs are back!

Cheers.

Does anyone know how to get Mandrake 9.0 to play midi files properly? I am running 9.0 with very few updates on my Duron machine with an SiS integrated motherboard. My soundcard is an SiS 7018 that Mandrake recognises as a trident-snd device. It does not recognise or install a midi mapper or wavetable device whatsoever

I have a huge collection of MIDI sequences that I like to listen to when I'm using my PC. When I was running Win ME I either used the software synth that came with the card - or the Yamaha SXG-100 software wavetable synth.

Is there any way I can play MIDI files under Linux? I have used Kmidi but the only instruments it appears to have patchsets for are Piano and Guitar - and all of my MIDIs now sound pretty crappy...

What do I need to do? Where do I download it from? How do I do it step-by-step?

I just really miss hearing my old tunes in all their glory - and I am not re-downloading all of them in MP3 or MOD format (it would take years).

MIDI soft synth must be possible under linux - how do I do it? Please help me!

Thankyou everyone for the advice. It's most appreciated.

However, I still can't get it to work in Linux - it works fine in ME.

I have reinstalled KPilot and all the conduits etc... still no luck

advice?

Its a Serial Hotsync Cradle

Has anyone managed to get Mandrake 9.0 to detect and sync a Palm M105? I have no "ttyS?" or "palm" entries in my device list. Its as if Mandrke didnt detect them...

Comments? Advice?

hmm... did you make sure you were root again the second time?

 

Otherwise run:

 

# chmod 775 -vRf usr/lib/rpm/rpmb

 

just to be sure.

Yes I was root the second time as well... Where do I run this command? in console? as root? in what directory?

Thankyou so much for the help!

I'm recent Linux convert happilly running Mandrake 9. I am trying to install xglobe. There is no "normal" rpm only a source rpm available. A checked out the linux pocketbook and it said to: copy the file to any directory, load the console as root and run a few commands... sounds easy enough

I copied the file - xglobe-01.51-1.src.rpm - into my Documents folder.

I load the console in that folder and become root. and type "rpm -rebuild xglobe-01.51-1.src.rpm"

I get the following message: "usr/lib/rpm/rpmb: no such file or directory"

So, as root, I create an "rpmb" directory under usr/lib/rpm/ and run the rpm commands again, as before...

This time I get this message: "usr/lib/rpm/rpmb: Permission denied"

What am I doing wrong? Has anyone got XGlobe working under Mandrkae 9 yet?