midi

[jb]

Everything seemed to go smooth until I went to /usr/local/share/ to copy the 
config file into the timidity folder, it wasn't there. I made a folder and 
put timidity.cfg in it but I tried "which timidity" without results. I then 
did rpm -qa|grep midity to get the version and then rpm -e and the version 
given. Then when I did which timidity and it came back with no timidity in a 
bunch of places.
It's probably obvious I did something noob with the compile. At first I copied 
and pasted your ./configure but it caughed on the two other lines 
below ./configure --enable-audio=default, then I put it all as a single 
command and it didn't gag and seemed to compile with all the enables and then 
thats where I ran into the missing folder in /usr/local/share/.
I'm using smart instead of yum and I checked for timidity ++ and it was no 
longer installed. I re-installed TiMidity ++ and ran timidity -ig and it came 
back with
Playmode `k' is not compiled in.
Interface `g' is not compiled in.
So I guess I'm back to square one and probably tried putting a square peg in a 
round hole with my noob terminal commands, probably good for a chuckle 
though. One thing I did notice the current version of timidity I downloaded 
from  sourceforge wasn't quite as current as the one I get from my smart 
repositories and quite a bit smaller if I'm not mistaken. If you can tell 
what I did wrong please point me in the right direction.
Thanks, your always a great help Cyber.
jb

On Mon October 10 2005 21:21, Cyber Source wrote:
> Ok, I played with this a while back because my step-mother was using FC
> and some friend of hers was sending her midi files or stupid emails with
> midi's playing as background music, etc.. You can tell your email app to
> use timidity but then you notice that you can't stop the file until the
> end because you have not gui control, etc.. So, you already have it
> installed, good. You could easily do "yum install timidity++" for those
> that don't have it. However, this won't give you a gui, it needs to be
> compiled in and the called when executing the binary. Go to
> http://timidity.sourceforge.net and download the lastest, LEAVE THE ONE
> YOU HAVE INSTALLED ALREADY, you'll see why in a minute. Compile the
> downloaded timidity, I used the following options, the install file
> explains all,
> ./configure --enable-audio=default
> --enable-interface=gtk,ncurses,motif,tcltk,xskin,slang --enable-network
> --enable-spectrogram
> Then make, make install. This will put the executable in
> /usr/local/bin/timidity. One HUGE thing that will be missing is the
> timidity.cfg file but the install from yum (or rpm) will have one at
> /etc/timidity.cfg. Copy this file to
> /usr/local/share/timidity/timidity.cfg. Do a "which timidity", if it
> comes back /usr/local/bin/timidity it's ok, that's the one put on from
> the compile, if not, after you copied the cfg file, you can rpm -e the
> installed timidity rpm (rpm -qa|grep midity) will give the exact name,
> left some out for case, etc. The whole reason to leave or use the
> rpm/yum install was to get the cfg file, if you have a look at that
> monster, you'll see it's no cake to figure out.
> Now, timidity -ig should fire it up with the gtk gui, try it out, let me
> know.
>
> jb wrote:
> >I found something that may help with diagnosing the problem. If I right
> > click on the mid file and click open with and navigate to
> > /usr/bin/timidity the file will play but I have no visual control, it
> > just plays until it stops. Not sure if that tidbit helps but it seems
> > like it narrows things down a bit. At least it isn't a hardware problem
> > and the comp is capable of playing that file type? Must be a setting
> > somewhere...
> >jb
> >
> >On Mon October 10 2005 15:36, jb wrote:
> >>I'm using FC4 and I tried to play a mid music file and no sound. In the
> >>control center I tested MIDI and nothing. In the hardware section it has
> >>select midi device and the only selection is Midi Through Midi Through
> >>Port-o-ALSA device. I'm not sure what to try next, I tried alsaconfig in
> >> a terminal but it said command not found. Not sure what to try next. I
> >> can play other types like mp3, is there a setting I need to do or do I
> >> need a plugin to play mid files? I didn't have any problem with them
> >> when I was using RH9 so the hardware isn't a problem just a setting or a
> >> missing lib or something? Any help would be appreciated.
> >>jb