Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 53978
playmidi says "open /dev/sequencer: No such device"
Last modified: 2014-03-16 22:23:34 EDT
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 || :
The i810_audio (AC'97, etc) does not have a sequencer device. So playmidi won't work.