[pulseaudio-discuss] how to make nted work with pulseaudio

[Rustom Mody]

On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 10:23 AM, Rustom Mody <rustompmody at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 11:42 PM, Daniel Chen <seven.steps at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 1:08 PM, Rustom Mody <rustompmody at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Can someone give a a way or at least a suggestion about how to use
>>> nted with timidity and pulse or just confirm that its not possible to
>>> make nted/timidity and pulse work together and that we just have to
>>> make do without pulse if we intend to use nted/timidity
>>
>> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingSoundProblems/KarmicCaveats#timidity
>
> Following the instructions there:
> Adding the line
> TIM_ALSASEQPARAMS="-Oe"
> gives syntax errors when starting timidity.  I tried all the variants
> that I could think of prefixing an opt, removing the quote etc -- no
> use
>
> So I try calling timidity by hand thus:
> $ timidity -iA -Oe -s 44100
> TiMidity starting in ALSA server mode
> Opening sequencer port: 129:0 129:1 129:2 129:3
>
> Ok so far
> Now nted shows 8 midi ports
> 128:0 128:1 ... 129:0 ... 129:3
>
> None of them work.
>

Well one correction (mine and the wikis :-)
The wiki talks of changing /etc/default/timidity.cfg

There is no such file.
The 2 files are /etc/timidity/timidity.cfg and /etc/default/timidity

Evidently the wiki is referring to the second whereas I took it to be the first.
Now when I edit it as suggested there is no syntax error but it does not work
The session is as shown

$ sudo /etc/init.d/timidity force-reload
 * Stopping TiMidity++ ALSA midi emulation...                            [ OK ]
 * Starting TiMidity++ ALSA midi emulation...                            [ OK ]
$ No protocol specified
XOpenDisplay() failed

$ timidity file.mid
Playing file.mid
MIDI file: file.mid
Format: 1  Tracks: 4  Divisions: 9
No instrument mapped to tone bank 0, program 52 - this instrument will
not be heard
No pre-resampling cache hit