From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.2) Gecko/20010725 Description of problem: I tried the playmidi and xplaymidi commands to play a midi file. They both fail with the message "open /dev/sequencer: No such device". The /dev/sequencer device does exist. Permission is 600. I tried it as a regular user and as root. I changed permission to 666 and 777. No change. Commands still fail. How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Type "playmidi file.mid" or "xplaymidi file.mid" 2. 3. Actual Results: Message appears "open /dev/sequencer: No such device" The command fails and exits. Expected Results: Should have played the midi file. Additional info: changing user accounts and changing permissions on /dev/sequencer doesn't help.
Do you have a soundcard with a sequencer device (what sound card do you have?)
My sound card is a Creative Ensoniq ES1371 [AudioPCI-97]. I can't find anything in the documentation that mentions a sequencer device. The box says it has a built-in MIDI interface, if that means anything.
That card does not have a HW midi synthesizer, so it doesn't have anything playmidi could use.