Midi

[Bradley J. Bartram]

Here's the long version of my saga...

I have an older 800mhz athlon, with 512 megs of ram, geforce2 gts video and a 
sound blaster live platinum sound card.  I have dual boot capability with two 
drives, windows 98se on hda and mandrake prosuite 8.1 on hdc.

I've been working with this system primarily linux (I boot windows on the 
occasional saturaday when a friend comes over to play Empire Earth against 
me).  I decided to get ambitious and play with wine.

I am a realtive newbie with wine but I figured I'd give it a go and see if I 
could get some of my games and such to run under mandrake.

Anyway, I started out with the basic setup that came with the system which 
was wine 20010731.  This I configured with a decent .wine/config and tried to 
fire up some applications.  And here is where the fun begins...

The first time I tried I received several font errors which crashed the 
process.  No big deal, a little research and I found I had to alias some 
windows fonts like tahoma.  I was able to move past that.

The next attempt at starting an application, the midi error.  I don't have 
the exact error ( or I can't find where I wrote it to ) but it referenced 
midi within it.  When it happened, I copied the error from my eterm into 
google and searched.  I came upon a common thread on both the wine mailing 
list archive and transgamings site that this seems to be something with the 
Live series of sound cards.

I might add that the wine list was no help as all that was there was a quint 
response to the effect of, "set up your hardware correctly, this isn't the 
hardware support forum".  Transgaming's site made attempts but nothing was 
really resolved per se.

I checked the link last night for creative which directed me to some other 
sites working on Emu101 drivers.  They were installed by default during the 
system install and a quick lsmod shows them loaded.

So now here I sit with wine still not working but I keep plodding along.  My 
next attack will probably be to upgrade to the latest wine either from source 
or I'll grab what's on cooker and try it out.

If you or anyone else in their journeys comes accross anything that they 
think might be relevant, I would be more than happy to hear it.

Brad

On Saturday 23 March 2002 11:38 am, you wrote:
> I've had troubles trying to get wine to work as well. Can you tell me
> more of the problem you've found?
>
> Bradley J. Bartram wrote:
> >Thanks for the link, I'm checking it now.
> >
> >I'm actually running into problems getting wine to work and I've been able
> > to trace it down to a midi error.  As odd as that seems.
> >
> >Just one more step down the path to linux nirvana where everything works
> > the way I want it to.  :)
> >
> >On Friday 22 March 2002 06:49 pm, you wrote:
> >>>I'm playing around trying to get midi to work under Mandrake 8.1 with a
> >>>creative labs sound blaster Live platinum.  I can't seem to find much
> >>>relevant documentation.  Anyone have any input?
> >>
> >>What are you trying to accomplish with MIDI?  Playing Midi files, or
> >>something more advanced, like keyboard input & what not?
> >>
> >>Creative Labs offers limited open source support for their linux drivers.
> >>Check this page out:
> >>
> >>ftp://opensource.creative.com/pub/doc/live_faq.html
> >>
> >>It should give you a head start with your sound card & Midi adventure :)
> >>
> >>Dege
> >>
> >>So Many Things in Life Would Be Really Funny
> >>.... If They Weren't Happening To Me