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Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1998 23:11:01 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jeremy Crabtree <jeremy@ItMightBeAServer.net>
Subject: A very annoying problem
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As we all know, ALSA doesn't do /dev/sequencer, well, no problem, we
can just use OSS for that, right? Well, I can't :(. I have a CS4237B
based Turtle Beach Malibu soundcard, and for some reason the MIDI port
refuses to be unmuted under ALSA. That is, I can load ALSA, and then
use alsamixer or xalsamixer and unmute the synth and FM devices, and
then unload ALSA and then load OSS, but still be unable to play MIDI
because the port is still muted. Interestingly, the PCM and DSP
devices, as well as all th e other devices, will unmute, and function
normally, even if I switchto OSS they remain unmuted. If anyone has any
clue as to how to fix this I would be ever so grateful.

(Could this be becaus I have disabled the FM-synth device?)

-- 
"Being myself a remarkably stupid fellow, I have had to unteach myself  the
 difficulties, and now beg to present to my fellow fools the parts that are
 not hard" --Silvanus P. Thompson, from "Calculus Made Easy."


