Bug 53978

Summary:	playmidi says "open /dev/sequencer: No such device"
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Bob Rintel <brintel>
Component:	playmidi	Assignee:	Bill Nottingham <notting>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	7.1	CC:	rvokal
Target Milestone:	---
Target Release:	---
Hardware:	i386
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Fixed In Version:		Doc Type:	Bug Fix
Doc Text:		Story Points:	---
Clone Of:		Environment:
Last Closed:	2001-09-24 21:17:44 UTC	Type:	---
Regression:	---	Mount Type:	---
Documentation:	---	CRM:
Verified Versions:		Category:	---
oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
Cloudforms Team:	---	Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:

Description Bob Rintel 2001-09-24 21:17:40 UTC

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.3-12 i686)

Description of problem:
playmidi says "open /dev/sequencer: No such device" even though
/dev/sequencer does exist and has permissions set to be readable and
writable.  Also, realplay and cdp work fine (though sndconfig plays at
twice the speed, as someone else reported in bug #43030).

I'm running RedHat 7.1 on an IBM NetVista A60 with Analog Devices SoundMAX
Integrated Digital Audio, which sndconfig identifies as Intel
Corporation|82820 820 (Camino 2) AC'97 Audio".

Also, I have to run sndconfig again each time I reboot, or else realplay
says, "Cannot open the audio device.  Another application may be using
it."  Yet /etc/modules.conf remains as it was.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.playmidi x.mid
2.
3.
	

Actual Results:  open /dev/sequencer: No such device

Expected Results:  the music

Additional info:

alias eth0 8139too
/etc/modules.conf contains:
alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
alias usb-controller usb-uhci
alias sound-slot-0 i810_audio
post-install sound-slot-0 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -L >/dev/null
2>&1 || :
pre-remove sound-slot-0 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -S >/dev/null
2>&1 || :

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2001-09-25 17:57:12 UTC

The i810_audio (AC'97, etc) does not have a sequencer device. So playmidi
won't work.