Re: [SLE] Really old problem - OT

From: Bob S. (usr_at_sanctum.com)
Date: 06/15/04

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Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 00:05:45 -0400

    On Monday 14 June 2004 03:22 pm, Carlos E. R. wrote:
    > The Monday 2004-06-14 at 04:08 +0200, Leendert Meyer wrote:
    > > > Leendert said: "timidity -iat -Os". I can't find "-ia", only
    > > > "-iA". The "t" is an interface option:
    > > >
    > > > t Toggles trace mode. In trace mode, TiMidity
    > > > attempts to display its current state in real time. For the
    > > > Linux sound driver, this is accomplished through the use of short
    > > > DMA buffer fragments, which can be tuned via the -B option.
    > >
    > > leen@cc22149-a:~> timidity --version | cat
    > > TiMidity++ version 2.13.0-rc2
    >
    > cer@nimrodel:~> timidity --version
    > timidity: invalid option -- -
    > Try timidity -h for help
    >
    > cer@nimrodel:~> timidity -h |grep -i version
    > TiMidity++ version 2.12.0-pre1 (C) 1999-2002 Masanao Izumo
    >
    >
    > So, you see, mine doesn't even accept "--version".
    >
    > > man timidity | manual_cutter ;P
    > > -ia X Athena Widget interface
    > > t, --[no-]trace
    > > -Os Output to ALSA
    > >
    > > man timidity is your friend
    >
    > My man page doesn't mention "-Os" - this is SuSE 8.2. In fact
    > "-Os" produces an error. "-ia" is accepted, though:
    >
    > cer@nimrodel:~> timidity -ia
    > Requested buffer size 32768, fragment size 8192
    > ALSA pcm 'default' set buffer size 32768, period size 8192 bytes
    >
    Carlos & Leen,

    AS you both know, I am running 8.2. Since I still cannot get timididity
    to play a midi file, I have watched your discussion with interest and
    tried some of your commands. Here is a copy from my console. Note the
    last few lines.

    Bob@linux:~> timidity -ia
    ALSA lib pcm_hw.c:1155:(snd_pcm_hw_open) open /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p failed:
    Device or resource busy
    Can't open pcm device 'default'.
    Couldn't open ALSA pcm device (`s')
    Bob@linux:~>
    Bob@linux:~> timidity -iat
    ALSA lib pcm_hw.c:1155:(snd_pcm_hw_open) open /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p failed:
    Device or resource busy
    Can't open pcm device 'default'.
    Couldn't open ALSA pcm device (`s')
    Bob@linux:~>
    Bob@linux:~> timidity -ia -Os
    ALSA lib pcm_hw.c:1155:(snd_pcm_hw_open) open /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p failed:
    Device or resource busy
    Can't open pcm device 'default'.
    Couldn't open ALSA pcm device (`s')
    Bob@linux:~>
    Bob@linux:~> timidity -iat -Os
    ALSA lib pcm_hw.c:1155:(snd_pcm_hw_open) open /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p failed:
    Device or resource busy
    Can't open pcm device 'default'.
    Couldn't open ALSA pcm device (`s')
    Bob@linux:~> timidity -iat -Os
    Requested buffer size 32768, fragment size 8192
    ALSA pcm 'default' set buffer size 32768, period size 8192 bytes
    X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).

    I waited about a minute between the 4th & 5th command thinking arts may
    have something to do with the resource busy thing.

    The 5th command opened a GUI similar to a CD player? It was labeled
    TiMidity++ 2.12.0-pre1 My command line never returned like when the
    system is working on something. The GUI had several rows of horizontal
    boxes and to the right of each line was a line of keyboard or piano
    keys. Wouldn't do anything though.

    My man timidity does show an -O option called mode with 4 or 5 other
    modifiers. The option -iA should open use of alsa but I still get the
    device or resource busy thing.

    Oh, and by the way, the -iat -Os thing doesn't always work; only about
    50% of the time.

    Very confusing. Don't seem as though I will ever get to hear a midi
    file.

    Bob S. 

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