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debian-user-digest Digest Volume 2007 : Issue 2327

Today's Topics: 

  (solved) Re: why sarge is so noisy    [ Serena Cantor  ]
  Re: LEDs, gnome-power-manager, and T  [ Bill Wohler  ]
  Re: Re:                               [ Alfredo Finol  ]
  [Fwd: Odd behavior, multiple menu an  [ Nate Bargmann  ]
  Re: (solved) Re: why sarge is so noi  [ Ron Johnson  ]
  converting sgml files into pdf files  [ Kamaraju S Kusumanchi  ]
  Re: text consoles 8-12 and german um  [ Florian Kulzer  ]
  Re: debian port of timidity doesn't   [ Seeker5528  ]

Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2007 15:46:16 -0700 (PDT) From: Serena Cantor <qipaishi2006@yahoo.com> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: (solved) Re: why sarge is so noisy 

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Thanks!

  • David <wizzardx@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 9/7/07, Serena Cantor <qipaishi2006@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > I have sarge, I use it all the time (it's server)
> > The machine is my bedroom and scsi disk make noise from time to time =
(it's read/writing)
> >
> > which script cause reading/writing? Let's assume it's default install=
ation. I don't start any
> > program myself.
> >

>=20

> First stop cron, and check if you still get the noise. If the noise
> stops then check what runs from cron (tail /var/log/syslog). If your
> scsi drive makes a noise every minute, on the minute (or on some
> interval of time divisible by 60 seconds) then it is probably a cron
> script.
>=20

> Then run pstree and see what's running. Kill the process off one by
> one until the noise stops. When the noise stops then the last thing
> you killed is your suspect.

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Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2007 15:52:41 -0700 (PDT) From: Serena Cantor <qipaishi2006@yahoo.com> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: why sarge is so noisy 

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Thanks! I don't create swap partition during installation.

  • Hal Vaughan <hal@thresholddigital.com> wrote:

> On Friday 07 September 2007, Serena Cantor wrote:
> > Thanks! "most of server-related work" are very specialized program I
> > wrote myself.
> >
> > another example: seeding in bittorrent, if memory is big enough and
> > file being served is small enough.

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> Also, depending on RAM size, even if you think everything can be done i=
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Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2007 18:56:15 -0400
From: Hal Vaughan <hal@thresholddigital.com> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
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On Friday 07 September 2007, Serena Cantor wrote:
> Thanks!

Can we help you?X

So did you locate one program in particular that was creating most of the noise? Others might want to know that answer at some point.

Hal

Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2007 16:01:28 -0700 (PDT) From: Serena Cantor <qipaishi2006@yahoo.com> To: List Debian User <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Subject: (solved)Re: why sarge is so noisy 

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Thanks! I'm considering moving it to another room.

  • David Brodbeck <brodbd@u.washington.edu> wrote: 
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> On Sep 7, 2007, at 2:42 AM, Serena Cantor wrote:
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> > Thanks! "most of server-related work" are very specialized program =20
> > I wrote myself.
> >
> > another example: seeding in bittorrent, if memory is big enough and =20
> > file being served is small
> > enough.
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> Since things seem to have veered off topic, I'll give the most likely =20
> answer to your original question:
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> If you're hearing disk activity at a specific time every day, it's =20
> most likely one of the periodic cron jobs. Most of these are =20
> specified by files in /etc/cron.daily, /etc/cron.hourly, and /etc/=20
> cron.monthly. You can disable individual jobs by removing the =20
> execute bits on their scripts in those directories. You can also =20
> change when they run by editing the "run-parts" entries in /etc/crontab=
. 
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> I had to do this once when I had a server in my dorm room. The =20
> server was at the foot of my bed, and it had a noisy old Kalok IDE =20
> hard disk as one of its drives. The nightly updatedb job kept waking =20
> me up, so I moved it to a time when I'd already be awake. ;)
>=20

> You'll never get rid of *all* of the disk activity because there's a =20
> lot going on behind the scenes in a Linux system.
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Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2007 19:04:07 -0400
From: Hal Vaughan <hal@thresholddigital.com> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: why sarge is so noisy
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On Friday 07 September 2007, Serena Cantor wrote:
> Thanks! I don't create swap partition during installation.

I don't know if Debian uses a swap file or not. Someone else would know. If so, then you might still be hearing noise from swapping.

Hal

Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2007 16:06:12 -0700 (PDT) From: Serena Cantor <qipaishi2006@yahoo.com> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: (solved) Re: why sarge is so noisy 

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No. I don't expect my question generate so many replies. I have to sign o= ff the list so I wrote
"solved" in the hope of stoping good guys answering my question again.

I'm considering moving sarge to another room and setting up WLAN.

  • Hal Vaughan <hal@thresholddigital.com> wrote:

> On Friday 07 September 2007, Serena Cantor wrote:
> > Thanks!

>=20

> So did you locate one program in particular that was creating most of=20
> the noise? Others might want to know that answer at some point.
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> Hal
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Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2007 17:34:13 -0500
From: "Mumia W.." <paduille.4061.mumia.w+nospam@earthlink.net> To: Debian User List <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Subject: Re: wodim:Can't Set SG_SET_TIMEOUT 

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On 09/07/2007 03:19 PM, Thomas H. George wrote:
> I have an Etch box with a linux-image-2.6.18-5-k7. All works well but
>
> wodim -devices
> Beginning native device scan. This may take a while ...
> wodim: Invalid argument. Cannot Set SG_SET_TIMEOUT
>
> Apt-get install wodim confirms I have the latest release. I have also
> run apt-get dist-upgrade but still get the same result from wodim -devices.
>
> What's wrong?
>
> Tom George
>
>

What is the output of wodim -scanbus ?

What device does your CD-ROM/DVD normally use?

Is your optical drive accessed through the normal ATAPI driver or through ide-scsi (SCSI emulation for IDE devices)?

Is SCSI compiled into your kernel--at least as a module? If so, is that module loaded? I think that the 'sg' (SCSI general?) module is used by wodim.


I'm running Sarge with kernel 2.6.22 and wodim (self compiled) 1.1.6. Even though 2.6 kernels support writing to ATAPI optical drives, I'm still using ide-scsi to drive my CD writer.
Confused? Frustrated?X

Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2007 20:34:42 -0400
From: Mark Grieveson <dg135@torfree.net> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Unblocking sound card, or adding stream (newbie) 

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On Fri, 7 Sep 2007 23:11:46 +0000 (UTC) debian-user-digest-request@lists.debian.org wrote:

> I may have been unclear but its not that i dont get sound from
> these--its that when one source IS playing sound, then i cant use any
> of the others, so if i have XMMS playing i cant watch (that is,
> listen) to YouTube. And then if something that I CANT FIGURE OUT is
> playing, i cant use any of the others and dont know what to do about
> it (ie., if i know im listening to XMMS i can stop if i need to watch
> YouTube but i am getting "sound card in use" messages when i dont
> think im using anything at all).
>
> Several other people have made suggestions, and i thank you and will
> try them when i get back to my Debian machine!
>
> Jen

Ah, I see. Yes, when watching crappy youtube videos, it's important to be able to listen to Bach or Chopin on xmms simultaneously to keep the world balanced. Like having a double cheese pizza with expensive wine.

I'm able to watch and listen to films with totem, while listening to music using xmms, and playing a CD using gnome-cd player, at the same time. So, I imagine you should be able to as well.

Hating to contradict myself, but perhaps unchecking the "Enable software sound mixing (ESD)" box would work (followed by restarting), to allow alsa to do its thing without the so-called Enlightened Sound Daemon, which perhaps is in conflict with alsa. I myself don't have it checked, and sound works fine on my system.

Again, good luck.
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Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2007 18:45:02 -0700
From: Bill Wohler <wohler@newt.com>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: LEDs, gnome-power-manager, and ThinkPads Message-ID: <87zlzyvskh.fsf@olgas.newt.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii

Nate Bargmann <n0nb@networksplus.net> writes:

> I gave up on the "one size fits all" power management utilities for my
> T23 and went back to my scripts. I did learn enough that I retained
> the uswsusp package and use its s2disk utility. I also use powernowd
> and KDE's battery monitor.

>

> My script is 100% reliable suspending to RAM while the various other
> utilities were not. I do think that the T23 is old enough that it
> doesn't support ACPI all that well even with BIOS updates. So my
> manual scripts work well with it.

Thanks for the feedback. Under APM, I had custom scripts as well (see http://www.newt.com/debian/thinkpad-t40p/), but I find that now under ACPI I'm really close to not having to maintain that stuff myself.

Maybe I should submit feature request to the hal package... 

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Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2007 23:35:50 -0400 From: Alfredo Finol <afinol@gmail.com> To: Cavan Mejias <cavanmejias@gmail.com> Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Re: Message-Id: <1189222550.25516.1.camel@localhost> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-TEyzHO/xHzBbESV6n6Z0" --=-TEyzHO/xHzBbESV6n6Z0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable El jue, 06-09-2007 a las 22:23 -0400, Alfredo Finol F escribi=F3:
> El jue, 06-09-2007 a las 22:07 -0400, Cavan Mejias escribi=F3:
> > I think my windows XP partition might have a virus or
> > maybe some of the Microsoft files are damaged. Its running very slow
> > but linux works fine. I wonder if anyone can tell me if I can
> > reinstall windows without messing up grub? Or should I just resign
> > myself to a fresh install of both OSes? Any comments or advice
> > appreciated.=20
> >=20
> > Cavan
>=20
> You can install Win again, but you have to find for a Live CD an then
> restore grub follow the next steps:
> 1) mount the Windows partition
Sorry, it's not Windows partition, it's where you have Linux boot directory
> 2) with the command grub-install, you can reinstall the grub on the MBR
> 3) and the last, reboot an try
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Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2007 22:57:02 -0500 From: Nate Bargmann <n0nb@networksplus.net> To: Debian Users <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Subject: [Fwd: Odd behavior, multiple menu and toolbar entries] Message-ID: <20070907035702.GB2860@mail.networksplus.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline I tried asking this on Debian-KDE with no response. ----- Forwarded message from Nate Bargmann <n0nb@networksplus.net> ----- Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 22:11:32 -0500 From: Nate Bargmann <n0nb@networksplus.net> To: Debian-KDE <debian-kde@lists.debian.org> Subject: Odd behavior, multiple menu and toolbar entries Organization: Amateur Radio! User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-11) X-Mailing-List: <debian-kde@lists.debian.org> archive/latest/28157 This has been vexing me for several months. I have used KDE on my desktop machine for about two years and it has been Sid the whole time and upgraded from somewhere in the 3.4 days to 3.5.7. Some time back I noticed that some applications would show duplicate menu entries, as though the entire menu was repeated. In other apps, or maybe the same one, a menu in the menu bar will be lost or say "No Text!" and in some cases the menu will be empty. Some apps have toolbar button entries duplicated as well. I've noticed Konqueror and KControl affected. Also, I can't keep KOrganizer from starting. It is disabled each time, but right clicking on it shows the "Reminders Enabled" unchecked but the "Start Reminder Daemon at Login" is checked each time. Even if I uncheck the latter option and stop the daemon, it will startup on the next login. I renamed my ~/.kde directory temporarily and that solved the KOrganizer issue, but the odd menu and toolbar issues remained. This is truly odd, unless some old config file didn't get purged in /etc and that is causing my issues. Maybe a year back I tried purging the entirety of KDE and starting over with no change of the results. I've got this thing configured as I like it and I really don't relish the idea of starting over. Ideas? - Nate >> ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Wireless | Amateur Radio Station N0NB | Successfully Microsoft Amateur radio exams; ham radio; Linux info @ | free since January 1998. http://www.qsl.net/n0nb/ | "Debian, the choice of My Kawasaki KZ-650 SR @ | a GNU generation!" http://www.networksplus.net/n0nb/ | http://www.debian.org

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Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2007 23:25:05 -0500 From: Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: why sarge is so noisy Message-ID: <46E22421.3040101@cox.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 09/07/07 18:04, Hal Vaughan wrote:
> On Friday 07 September 2007, Serena Cantor wrote:
>> Thanks! I don't create swap partition during installation.
>
> I don't know if Debian uses a swap file or not. Someone else would
> know. If so, then you might still be hearing noise from swapping.
Linux has been able to use swap files since (I think) v2.0. Up until v2.6, though, they've been markedly slower than swap partitions. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFG4iQhS9HxQb37XmcRAhSJAKC2FdvEHQVBEQbLBdcl3PCPJbdyugCg6zQY QpK/5JEBsu5i8RyYB7TS9tY= =a1vS -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2007 23:26:42 -0500 From: Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> To: Serena Cantor <qipaishi2006@yahoo.com> Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: (solved) Re: why sarge is so noisy Message-ID: <46E22482.3090405@cox.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Fat chance. We *love* discussing this kind of thing. On 09/07/07 18:06, Serena Cantor wrote:
> No. I don't expect my question generate so many replies. I have
> to sign off the list so I wrote "solved" in the hope of stoping
> good guys answering my question again.
>
> I'm considering moving sarge to another room and setting up WLAN.
>
>
> --- Hal Vaughan <hal@thresholddigital.com> wrote:
>
>> On Friday 07 September 2007, Serena Cantor wrote: >>> Thanks! >> So did you locate one program in particular that was creating >> most of the noise? Others might want to know that answer at >> some point. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFG4iSCS9HxQb37XmcRAiklAKDL8H/p3bM6sH4TE12qgLoUzUg77gCeMvsI KlxJpQR0hKXMFxEcQBrxLDQ= =N/lA -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

Date: Sat, 08 Sep 2007 01:45:59 -0400 From: Kamaraju S Kusumanchi <kamaraju@bluebottle.com> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: converting sgml files into pdf files Message-ID: <fbtcf5$ljh$1@sea.gmane.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Hi When I installed abs-guide package, the documentation comes in html format. However I like to have the abs-book in pdf format. So I unzipped the /usr/share/doc/abs-guide/abs-book.sgml.gz to abs-book.sgml. Then I tried to convert the sgml file into a pdf one by doing $docbook2pdf abs-book.sgml Using catalogs: /etc/sgml/catalog Using stylesheet: /usr/share/docbook-utils/docbook-utils.dsl#print Working on: /home/raju/practice/abs-guide/abs-book.sgml jade:/home/raju/practice/abs-guide/abs-book.sgml:1:55:W: cannot generate system identifier for public text "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook V3.1//EN" jade:/home/raju/practice/abs-guide/abs-book.sgml:339:0:E: reference to entity "BOOK" for which no system identifier could be generated jade:/home/raju/practice/abs-guide/abs-book.sgml:1:0: entity was defined here jade:/home/raju/practice/abs-guide/abs-book.sgml:339:0:E: DTD did not contain element declaration for document type name jade:/home/raju/practice/abs-guide/abs-book.sgml:341:5:E: element "BOOK" undefined jade:/home/raju/practice/abs-guide/abs-book.sgml:342:11:E: element "BOOKINFO" undefined jade:/home/raju/practice/abs-guide/abs-book.sgml:343:10:E: element "TITLE" undefined jade:/home/raju/practice/abs-guide/abs-book.sgml:344:13:E: element "SUBTITLE" undefined jade:/home/raju/practice/abs-guide/abs-book.sgml:347:11:E: element "AUTHOR" undefined ...... a bunch of similar errors ... jade:/home/raju/practice/abs-guide/abs-book.sgml:685:52:E: element "FIRSTTERM" undefined jade:/home/raju/practice/abs-guide/abs-book.sgml:690:15:E: element "FIRSTTERM" undefined jade:/home/raju/practice/abs-guide/abs-book.sgml:692:12:E: element "FOOTNOTE" undefined jade:/home/raju/practice/abs-guide/abs-book.sgml:693:10:E: element "PARA" undefined jade:I: maximum number of errors (200) reached; change with -E option Is this a bug in docbook2pdf or in abs-guide? In general how does one go about converting a .sgml file to .pdf? thanks in advance raju -- Kamaraju S Kusumanchi http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/ http://malayamaarutham.blogspot.com/

Date: Sat, 08 Sep 2007 07:53:06 +0200 From: Robert Epprecht <epprecht@solnet.ch> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: text consoles 8-12 and german umlauts Message-ID: <86lkbhaekd.fsf@muz.home> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii I have activated more text consoles by adding lines like the following to /etc/inittab 8:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty8 9:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty9 [...] If I try to type german umlauts on these new consoles I get garbage instead. How can I fix that? Thanks a lot, Robert Epprecht

Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2007 10:45:05 +0200 From: David <wizzardx@gmail.com> To: "Serena Cantor" <qipaishi2006@yahoo.com> Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: (solved) Re: why sarge is so noisy Message-ID: <18c1e6480709080145y34fe10d9l99b74c9d99c653fd@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline On 9/8/07, Serena Cantor <qipaishi2006@yahoo.com> wrote:
> No. I don't expect my question generate so many replies. I have to sign off the list so I wrote
> "solved" in the hope of stoping good guys answering my question again.
Might I suggest setting up mail filters so that list-related mails go directly to separate folders rather than your inbox? Then you won't be overwhelmed by replies and can review them at your leisure. Also, make sure you use a mail client/service with good thread handling. I use gmail, and I have a mail filter which says 'if the "to" contains debian.org, then tag with "debian" and bypass the inbox'. Filters like that make your mail much more manageable :-)

Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2007 11:21:42 +0200 From: Florian Kulzer <florian.kulzer+debian@icfo.es> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: text consoles 8-12 and german umlauts Message-ID: <20070908092142.GA500@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Sat, Sep 08, 2007 at 07:53:06 +0200, Robert Epprecht wrote:
> I have activated more text consoles by adding lines like the following
> to /etc/inittab
> 8:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty8
> 9:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty9
> [...]
>
> If I try to type german umlauts on these new consoles I get garbage instead.
> How can I fix that?
Which mechanism do you use to install the German keymap for the standard consoles? You have to extend that to the new ones. For example, I use the tools/initscripts of the "console-setup" package to set up console keymaps and fonts, so I would have to change the line ACTIVE_CONSOLES="/dev/tty[1-6]" in /etc/default/console-setup to activate these settings for additional ttys. -- Regards, | http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer Florian |

Date: Sat, 08 Sep 2007 04:34:44 -0500 From: Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: mail filters (was Re: (solved) Re: why sarge is so noisy) Message-ID: <46E26CB4.6040008@cox.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 09/08/07 03:45, David wrote:
> On 9/8/07, Serena Cantor <qipaishi2006@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> No. I don't expect my question generate so many replies. I have >> to sign off the list so I wrote "solved" in the hope of stoping >> good guys answering my question again.
>
> Might I suggest setting up mail filters so that list-related
> mails go directly to separate folders rather than your inbox?
> Then you won't be overwhelmed by replies and can review them at
> your leisure.
>
> Also, make sure you use a mail client/service with good thread
> handling.
Always an excellent idea.
> I use gmail, and I have a mail filter which says 'if the "to"
> contains debian.org, then tag with "debian" and bypass the
> inbox'. Filters like that make your mail much more manageable :-)
This is a flawed strategy, because debian-user@lists.debian.org might be in the CC list. Or even be Bcc'd. Better (perfect, actually) to filter on List-Id: <debian-user.lists.debian.org> - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFG4my0S9HxQb37XmcRAgayAJ44q7INUnqlD4ES07sToMulNJKWwgCg38NB L6GlH//8xAjQoF3yiUXI1CI= =7DEZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2007 03:02:39 -0700 From: Seeker5528 <seeker5528@comcast.net> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: debian port of timidity doesn't work here Message-ID: <20070908030239.4b636735@magicbus-debian> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Sat, 1 Sep 2007 00:49:12 -0500 (CDT) Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@shellworld.net> wrote:
> I figured to use timidity to listen to some midi files and found out
> missing instruments make that impossible. Would it be better to convert
> the midi files to another format and listen to them that way and if so
> which format and what tool does that conversion?
Timidity does conversion and depending on the speed of your computer conversion may be the best option. To get a good sound out of timidity I use soundfonts. You can find some at: http://www.personalcopy.com/home.htm : In the Linux section personal copy and unison are good. If you go to their normal soundfont page and from there go to the big soundfonts there is a lite version of personal copy also music theory 2 and RealFont 2.1 are good choices, you will need the sfark extraction utility to unpack the sfark and sfark.exe files for use: http://www.melodymachine.com/sfark.htm : Once you have your chosen soundfont extracted, put it in /usr/share/sounds/sf2, then edit /etc/timidity.cfg, just before the line that points to freepats.cfg put a line in that points to the soundfont: soundfont /usr/share/sounds/sf2/PCLite.sf2 order=0 : I'm using personal copy lite at the moment, but normally prefer the larger soundfonts, the order=0 tells timidity to look at the soundfont for instruments first, if it doesn't find an instrument in the soundfont it will look at the freepats instruments. If you want to use timidity in alsa sequencer mode uncomment the line in /etc/default/timidity that enables it, then open a terminal window and type: /etc/init.d/timidity start : this will create a timidity alsa device for midi applications to use, I believe you have to go into the options of each individual midi application and choose the timidity alsa device. If you want to convert the midi to audio look at the timidity man page for the output options, I think there are options for ogg, flac, and wav and maybe a couple others, no option for mp3. Later, Seeker End of debian-user-digest Digest V2007 Issue #2327 ************************************************** Received on Sat Sep 8 07:49:26 2007

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