Bug 113827

Summary: when trying to play midis using audio/playmidi "/dev/sequencer: No such file or directory"
Product: Ports & Packages Reporter: hip0 <roots_bg>
Component: Individual Port(s)Assignee: Alejandro Pulver <alepulver>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me    
Priority: Normal    
Version: Latest   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   

Description hip0 2007-06-18 18:50:04 UTC 
I have installed the port of playmidi and tried to listen to some midi files but when I try to run a midi with playmidi I get this err "open /dev/sequencer: No such file or directory".
%playmidi *.mid
Playmidi 2.4 Copyright (C) 1994-1997 Nathan I. Laredo, AWE32 by Takashi Iwai
This is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
For details please see the file COPYING.
open /dev/sequencer: No such file or directory
I have googled around but haven't found anywhere a fix. There was some discussions on that topic which suggested to use the audigy as a possible workaround but installing the emu10kx port and using it as a kernel module doesn't fix the problem. This means the current state of the port is absolutely useless.
I hope the port developer or the FreeBSD developers team would take a look at the problem and solve it.

Fix: 

None
How-To-Repeat: Install the playmidi port then try to run some midi file you'll surely get the error "open /dev/sequencer: No such file or directory"
Comment 1 Edwin Groothuis freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2007-06-18 23:07:07 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: open->closed

Please discuss these problems at ports@freebsd.org or x11@freebsd.org.
Comment 2 Edwin Groothuis freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2007-06-18 23:07:07 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: open->open

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Comment 3 Alejandro Pulver freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2007-09-29 23:16:00 UTC 
Responsible Changed
From-To: freebsd-ports-bugs->alepulver

I'll take it.
Comment 4 Alejandro Pulver freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2007-09-29 23:17:59 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: open->closed

FreeBSD does not have MIDI support since 5.x, this problem is not 
related to the port, but to the system. See 
http://wiki.freebsd.org/soundsystem