Getting midi to work.
Actually, timidity offers only a command line interface to play midi. That’s what I managed to get working anyway. Installed it, fired up the terminal and used timidity to play the cccool.mid file. Apparently some of the patches can’t be loaded. Will probably have to solve that some other time. At least I managed to get a midi file to be played!
- Install libSDL_1.2.6cvs-1_arm.ipk (if it isn’t already installed)
- Install libSDL-mixer_1.2.6-zports-1_arm.ipk (that’s what I used anyway)
- Install timidity_2.11.2-1.3-k4_arm.ipk (I installed it to the CF card)
- Extract the contents of guspat-20000706-required.tar.gz (I sent them to the CF card too, since I installed timidity into the CF)
- Make a copy (or symlink) of timidity in /home/QtPalmtop/etc
- Edit the timidity.cfg file, allowing it to point to the proper directory where the patches are located (in my case, they would point to /mnt/cf/Documents/application/timidity)
This should do the job.
Interesting point to note. I didn’t exactly follow the instructions found here.
