No sound with Timidity

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#1

After looking on the web at various forums, I cannot seem to solve this.

I have no sound when using Timidity. I am launching it by:
timidity -iA

When I type:
lsof /dev/dsp* /dev/audio* /dev/mixer* /dev/snd/*
I get:
COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME
pulseaudi 3057 tex mem CHR 116,7 3371 /dev/snd/pcmC1D0p
pulseaudi 3057 tex 15u CHR 116,9 0t0 3389 /dev/snd/controlC1
pulseaudi 3057 tex 21u CHR 116,9 0t0 3389 /dev/snd/controlC1
pulseaudi 3057 tex 32u CHR 116,19 0t0 3543 /dev/snd/controlC0
pulseaudi 3057 tex 38u CHR 116,7 0t0 3371 /dev/snd/pcmC1D0p
timidity 27218 tex 8u CHR 116,20 0t0 6882 /dev/snd/seq
noteedit 27222 tex 11u CHR 116,20 0t0 6882 /dev/snd/seq

When I run Totem (and can hear sound), I get this:
COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME

pulseaudi 3057 tex 15u CHR 116,9 0t0 3389 /dev/snd/controlC1

pulseaudi 3057 tex 21u CHR 116,9 0t0 3389 /dev/snd/controlC1

pulseaudi 3057 tex 32u CHR 116,19 0t0 3543 /dev/snd/controlC0

totem 27183 tex 17r CHR 14,3 0t0 7057 /dev/dsp

Any ideas?

#2

I found a solution.

My system would not work with ALSA (the -iA option in timidity). I had to use OSS. I could never find a solution using timidity, so I used fluidsynth (it’s on my 11.0 DVD):

fluidsynth TimGM6mb.sf2 -aoss

I have used this with noteedit and noteworthy (running in wine)

I will still use timidity to convert from midi to wav files.