Guest gawron Posted October 29, 2002 Report Share Posted October 29, 2002 Hi! I just installed Mandrake 9.0 on my Thinkpad 600. After playing for a moment with OSS sound drivers, I decided to switch to ALSA (snd-cs4236 module). ALSA drivers are really much better - sound quality is better, and APM support is there (i.e. I can suspend a notebook while sound is playing). Everything works now excep: - KDE Mixer KMix shows strange sliders - there is no output volume slider, only FM, PCM, Mic, Line, CD and Gain. And the FM slider does not work. But the ALSA mixer (Alsamixergui) works without a problem - KDE does not see MIDI outputs (and it was working with OSS drivers) - in KControl->Sound->MIDI there are no entries (despite the fact that Kcontrol->Information->Sound shows two MIDI devices), and KMid does not produce any sound. In KMid configuration there are two devices (both named - ALSA device), and when I load MIDI file it starts and blocks /dev/sequencer (I think) - but no sound :( However if I try running playmidi -e (or playmidi -4) from console - it works, and plays MIDI file beautifully. So - any ideas??? Where to look??? Thanks in advace :-) Piotr Gawrysiak pgawrysiak@supermedia.pl Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest alan.hughes Posted October 30, 2002 Report Share Posted October 30, 2002 Seen the same problem on my sound card (Creative SoundBlaster Live! using the emu10k1 module). The ALSA project page (http://www.alsa-project.org) noted that there was a bug in the driver regarding MIDI, so I assumed that that was the problem. However there is no bug noted against your card, so I guess my assumption was wrong. Could there be a problem with KDE, or the KDE setup in 9.0? Anyone else seen this problem? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest gawron Posted October 30, 2002 Report Share Posted October 30, 2002 Hmmm. I got one more message from someone exactly this problem - not solved :( alas - on TP600 but with Suse 8. Seems to be something related to KDE setup then??? Piotr Gawrysiak Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest alan.hughes Posted October 30, 2002 Report Share Posted October 30, 2002 Just had a look at http://bugs.kde.org, it seems people have been reporting this problem since KDE 2.2 :!: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest gawron Posted October 30, 2002 Report Share Posted October 30, 2002 Just had a look at http://bugs.kde.org, it seems people have been reporting this problem since KDE 2.2 :!: Dou you have a bug ID? I can't find the bug report that would describe exactly this problem... Piotr Gawrysiak Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest alan.hughes Posted October 30, 2002 Report Share Posted October 30, 2002 25603 describes the same problem on Mandrake 8.0 Beta 3 (using KDE 2.1.1), with 26306 and 35715 duplicating the original report. 21950 is also familiar! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Indigesto Posted January 6, 2003 Report Share Posted January 6, 2003 I use LM9.0 with GNOME 2.0 and cannot use MIDI as well. Before, LM 8.2 with KDE and OSS, everything was working. I want to use alsa also to use external MIDI module with serial line. With LM9.0 I also cannot see now my sb16 among the system hardware components list of Mandrake Control Center. But it work for audio (MP3, Ogg, ..). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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