I ran rpgmaker2000 and ran a bgm...and nothing came out. it used to work. Curious, I also checked top, and noticed that both timidity and its pulseaudio spawn were chewing up loads of CPU. I ran an strace on them and saw some surprisingly spammy results. I also ran timidity on its own for a midi file, and it played fine and didn't chew up gobs of CPU. Reproducible: Always Actual Results: cpu burnage and no sound Expected Results: music I tried enabling SND_VIRMIDI but all that did was kill my regular sound when the default output device got replaced.
Timestamped strace logs during the test. They were too big to attach: http://speedy.sh/zjg6q/pulse.log.xz http://speedy.sh/ubjmF/timidity.log.xz
Created attachment 408762 [details] emerge --info
I got it working again after disabling pulseaudio system wide (except for skype). I confirmed that it worked, and that timidity had an open fd to the sound card.
timidity command line?
/etc/init.d/timidity start
I should probably also mention that pulseaudio was involved the first time. Killing it off my system completely fixed timidity so it could be a bug in pulseaudio instead of timidity. Not my area of expertise though so I can't really be sure.
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