John Culleton <john@wexfordpress.com> wrote:
> Yes, I have an ES1371 card and yes, it used to work under Slackware
> 10. But I reinstalled Slack for reasons not pertinent here. Now
> systems sounds work but the Kmidi player doesn't. It acts like it is
> playing a song but no sound comes out. Yes, I went to kmix and ran the
> volume up and muted the second checkblock for IEC958 to get rid of the
> hiss. I ran alsaconf. I commented out all the stuff in modules.conf
> relating to OSS. I ran control center and down at the button where it
> says "Test Sound" I get the startup sound but on the similar block
> that says "Test Midi" I get nothing.
>
> I have an extra partition. should I install a fresh Slack there and
> then do whatever magic steps are necessary? BTW what are the magic
> steps for playing midi files?
>
> And why, after all these years, doesn't sound work out of the box?
>
> John Culleton

Sounds to me like sound *did* work out of the box, just not midi. For
midi I believe you need the sequencer component loaded. Do the modules
loaded include the sequencer, e.g. snd-seq-oss? Note that you may need
the OSS emulation module loaded to get at this sequencer, not sure, I
don't use midi.

The page for that card provides this for the alsa section of
modules.conf:

# ALSA portion
alias char-major-116 snd
alias snd-card-0 snd-ens1371
# module options should go here

# OSS/Free portion
alias char-major-14 soundcore
alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0

# card #1
alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss

HTH - JB

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