[PLUG] Playing .mid

Alan alan at clueserver.org
Fri Jan 7 08:37:07 UTC 2005


On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 21:57 -0800, Robert Kopp wrote:
> --- Alan <alan at clueserver.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 2005-01-05 at 18:50 -0800, Robert Kopp
> > wrote:
> > > Oddly enough, I haven't yet been able to play .mid
> > > files on Sarge. I have a Creative Labs PCI512 and
> > > sound is generally working.
> > > 
> > > Kmid reports that it can't access /dev/sequencer
> > > (which exists) and that another device is using
> > it. I
> > > have no idea what it means. (The error message
> > here
> > > causes a funny noise to play.)
> > 
> > Try `/usr/sbin/lsof /dev/sequencer` to find out what
> > has it open.
> > 
> > If you do not have lsof installed, you should.  it
> > is a very useful
> > debugging tool.
> > 
> According to lsof, kmid is the only program using /dev/sequencer.

What are the permissions on the file?

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