Re: newbie trying to get midi working

Last Saturday 27 November 2004 17:45, airplays55@xxxxxxxxx was like:
> Alas, on the demudi livecd (booted with alsa
> cheatcode), there is no aadebug command found, and
> there is not even a /dev/alsa directory!

No, you don't, sorry, mental aberration there.

You can pick up a copy from:
http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php?page=aadebug
The rest of the site is well worth browsing too.

> cat /proc/asound/cards tells the following:
>   0 [YMF724         ]: YMF724 - Yamaha DS-XG (YMF724)
>   Yamaha DS-XG (YMF724) at 0xfedf0000, irq 10
>
> (thats a PCI card with a joystick/midi port).  I also
> have an ISA ESS1869 and ALS100 card, and a USB midi
> interface (m-audio midiman).
>
> I thought the liveCD would work to help me get midi
> working?  Am I wrong, and actually need to install to
> harddrive?

Basically, yes, this is the case. It's an awful lot less brain strain to 
install A/DeMuDi-1.2.0 to hard drive (Don't use the Knoppix version for 
installation, it's fraught with future problems).

1.2.0 installs in under an hour, if the liveCD boots ok, you should have no 
problems with the 1.2.0 installer. It will probably take the rest of the week 
to configure it all the way you want it. You will find it considerably more 
rewarding than fiddling around with the 1.1.1 LiveCD.

cheers

tim hall
http://glastonburymusic.org.uk