Sound configuration question

[Hyperblaze]

Hello,
I'm trying to get my sound fully configured on my laptop. This is
what I have so far.

[root@laptop etc]# cat /proc/asound/oss/sndstat
Sound Driver:3.8.1a-980706 (ALSA v1.0.6 emulation code)
Kernel: Linux laptop 2.6.9 #12 SMP Wed Dec 15 12:46:17 PST 2004 i686
Config options: 0

Installed drivers:
Type 10: ALSA emulation

Card config:
Intel 82801CA-ICH3 at 0x1000, irq 11
Intel 82801CA-ICH3 Modem at 0x1800, irq 11

Audio devices:
0: Intel 82801CA-ICH3 (DUPLEX)
1: Intel 82801CA-ICH3 Modem - Modem (DUPLEX)

Synth devices: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG

Midi devices: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG

Timers:
7: system timer

Mixers:
0: Yamaha YMF753
1: Silicon Laboratory Si3036/8 rev
[root@laptop etc]#

My /etc/modules.conf file looks like this.

#
# /etc/modules.conf (for v2.4 kernels)
#
alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss
alias eth0 eepro100
alias sound-slot-1 snd-card-1
alias snd-card-1 snd-virmidi
alias sound-slot-2 snd-card-2
alias snd-card-2 snd-virmidi

#alias sound-service-1-0 snd-mixer-oss
alias sound-service-1-1 snd-seq-oss
#alias sound-service-1-3 snd-pcm-oss
alias sound-service-1-8 snd-seq-oss
#alias sound-service-1-12 snd-pcm-oss

Anyone know what I could add to get the Synth and midi devices
configured? Thanks for any assitance!

 

[drag]

Damn. Don't know much about midi stuff.

What do you need that for? Do you need to load some soundfonts or something like that?

Lots of onboard sound cards have no real support for midi and would have to have that stuff done thru software.

This may be a bit dated, but see here (actually that's a LOT dated. 0.5 stuff is completely obsolete nowadays and alsa has moved beyond .9 and is integrated into the 2.6 kernel with 1.x versions, does a good job telling what midi is)

You'd have probably use something like Timidity++
http://timidity.sourceforge.net/

Other then that I don't know much about it.

Is there any issues with sound quality or something?

 

[Hyperblaze]

Thanks for answering!

Actually, the reason why I thought to configure what isn't...is because my sound has some static when playing music. I thought it was because I had some devices that still needed configuring.