[Wine] WINE ALSA MIDI

[Christian Costa]

Hi,

Powertab works well for me.
I've just downloaded Lose Your Marbles and music works fine (apart that 
it starts with a delay in some cases).

Could you both enable midi channel (WINEDEBUG=+midi wine .....) and send 
the log?

Bye,
Christian

Holly Bostick wrote:

>dwaynec schreef:
>  
>
>>Hello, I am having trouble with wine and midi, and also the new
>>winecfg vs config file setup. I have looked through old emails faqs
>>etc and on frank's corner but nothing seems to be able to get the
>>midi output out of wine and onwards towards my soundcard. The program
>>I am having trouble with is called Power tab. I am running 'timidity
>>-iA' with a GM soundfont and confirm that it is working by hooking it
>>up to rosegarden, my ALSA setup is also in good order. When I start
>>powertab 'wine ..PTEditor' it works fine, it will even let me choose
>>from a list of midi devices: Sound card, timidity , timidity etc. But
>>no matter which one I choose I cannot get the midi to play. It looks
>>like it should be working.  I have read the page on Multimedia
>>configuration in the developers guide but am having trouble  working
>>ou what to do next .  Also when I check  in the registry  the
>>following values are not present :
>>
>>HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Multimedia\MIDIMap
>>
>>
>>
>>HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\MediaProperties\PrivateProperties\Midi\Schemes\%name_of_scheme%
>>
>>
>>
>>HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\MediaProperties\PrivateProperties\Midi\Ports\%driver_name%
>>
>>
>>
>>though they are listed on that page. Also here is my output from the
>>setpup program for powertab.
>>
>>fixme:msi:ACTION_HandleStandardAction UNHANDLED Standard Action 
>>L"CCPSearch" fixme:msi:ACTION_HandleStandardAction UNHANDLED Standard
>>Action L"RMCCPSearch" fixme:msi:ACTION_HandleStandardAction UNHANDLED
>>Standard Action L"ValidateProduc tID" fixme:msi:ACTION_CostFinalize
>>cost should be diff in size fixme:msi:msi_dialog_pathedit_control not
>>implemented properly err:msi:msi_dialog_create_controls no handler
>>for element type L"ProgressBar" fixme:msi:ACTION_HandleStandardAction
>>UNHANDLED Standard Action L"CCPSearch" 
>>fixme:msi:ACTION_HandleStandardAction UNHANDLED Standard Action 
>>L"RMCCPSearch" fixme:msi:ACTION_HandleStandardAction UNHANDLED
>>Standard Action L"ValidateProduc tID" 
>>fixme:msi:ACTION_HandleStandardAction UNHANDLED Standard Action 
>>L"SetODBCFolders " fixme:msi:ACTION_HandleStandardAction UNHANDLED
>>Standard Action L"RemoveExisting Products" 
>>fixme:msi:ACTION_HandleStandardAction UNHANDLED Standard Action 
>>L"AllocateRegist rySpace" fixme:msi:ACTION_HandleStandardAction
>>UNHANDLED Standard Action L"MsiUnpublishAs semblies" 
>>fixme:msi:ACTION_HandleStandardAction UNHANDLED Standard Action 
>>L"UnpublishCompo nents" fixme:msi:ACTION_HandleStandardAction
>>UNHANDLED Standard Action L"UnpublishFeatu res" 
>>fixme:msi:ACTION_HandleStandardAction UNHANDLED Standard Action 
>>L"UnregisterComP lus" fixme:msi:ACTION_HandleStandardAction UNHANDLED
>>Standard Action L"SelfUnregModul es" 
>>fixme:msi:ACTION_HandleStandardAction UNHANDLED Standard Action 
>>L"UnregisterType Libraries" fixme:msi:ACTION_HandleStandardAction
>>UNHANDLED Standard Action L"RemoveODBC" 
>>fixme:msi:ACTION_HandleStandardAction UNHANDLED Standard Action 
>>L"UnregisterFont s" fixme:msi:ACTION_HandleStandardAction UNHANDLED
>>Standard Action L"RemoveRegistry Values" 
>>fixme:msi:ACTION_HandleStandardAction UNHANDLED Standard Action 
>>L"UnregisterClas sInfo" fixme:msi:ACTION_HandleStandardAction
>>UNHANDLED Standard Action L"UnregisterExte nsionInfo" 
>>fixme:msi:ACTION_HandleStandardAction UNHANDLED Standard Action 
>>L"UnregisterProg IdInfo" fixme:msi:ACTION_HandleStandardAction
>>UNHANDLED Standard Action L"UnregisterMIME Info" 
>>fixme:msi:ACTION_HandleStandardAction UNHANDLED Standard Action 
>>L"RemoveIniValue s" fixme:msi:ACTION_HandleStandardAction UNHANDLED
>>Standard Action L"RemoveShortcut s" 
>>fixme:msi:ACTION_HandleStandardAction UNHANDLED Standard Action 
>>L"RemoveEnvironm entStrings" fixme:msi:ACTION_HandleStandardAction
>>UNHANDLED Standard Action L"RemoveDuplicat eFiles" 
>>fixme:msi:ACTION_HandleStandardAction UNHANDLED Standard Action 
>>L"RemoveFiles" fixme:msi:ACTION_HandleStandardAction UNHANDLED
>>Standard Action L"RemoveFolders" 
>>fixme:msi:ACTION_HandleStandardAction UNHANDLED Standard Action 
>>L"MoveFiles" fixme:msi:ACTION_InstallFiles Write DiskPrompt 
>>fixme:msi:ACTION_HandleStandardAction UNHANDLED Standard Action 
>>L"PatchFiles" fixme:msi:ACTION_HandleStandardAction UNHANDLED
>>Standard Action L"BindImage" fixme:msi:ACTION_HandleStandardAction
>>UNHANDLED Standard Action L"WriteEnvironme ntStrings" 
>>fixme:msi:ACTION_HandleStandardAction UNHANDLED Standard Action 
>>L"InstallODBC" fixme:msi:ACTION_HandleStandardAction UNHANDLED
>>Standard Action L"RegisterComPlu s" fixme:msi:ACTION_RegisterProduct
>>Flesh out more information fixme:msi:ACTION_RegisterProduct Write
>>real Estimated Size when we have it 
>>fixme:msi:ACTION_HandleStandardAction UNHANDLED Standard Action 
>>L"MsiPublishAsse mblies" fixme:msi:ACTION_PublishProduct Need to
>>write more keys to the user registry
>>
>>
>>
>>So it looks to me like the installer isn't adding the right entries
>>into the registry, and that the midi data is getting lost. But I am
>>not sure. And I don't know how to fix it.
>>
>>I would appreciate any help
>>
>>Cheers Dwayne
>>
>>    
>>
>
>I would also be interested in knowing how to get MIDI output in Wine,
>for a completely different reason (maybe the difference will help
>highlight where the problem actually lies).
>
>I'm running a game, Lose Your Marbles (available as abandonware from
>http://www.the-underdogs.org/game.php?id=2538 ). The game installs and
>runs fine, and sound effects play (they're *.wav)-- but the level music
>(which is *.mid) does not. I tested and the files themselves are fine (I
>also have Timidity installed and running, and the *.mid files play fine
>using XMMS's Timidity plugin).
>
>I can't even say so much as Dwayne as to whether incorrect entries are
>being added to the Registry in this case (I would doubt it, though), but
>my (possibly completely unfounded) impression is that while previous
>versions of Wine could access Timidity (or so I've heard), this one
>(20050830, but I've been trying to get music out of this game for 4-6
>months) cannot. Perhaps there's a setting I need to change (like the
>midimap.drv) to allow Wine to use Timidity, but
>
>1) that setting cannot be configured in winecfg;
>2) if I attempted to change it in Wine's Registry, I wouldn't know what
>to change it to.
>
>Unlike Dwayne, I don't think my program is "broke"; I think either Wine is
>broke or my config is broke, but I don't know which, how to fix it, and
>of course, we are both experiencing the same effect that we don't have
>MIDI sound in Wine apps.
>
>So I'd appreciate any light shed on this matter as well (even though
>mine is obviously not a mission-critical issue, unlike Dwayne's).
>
>Thanks,
>Holly
>
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