[Discuss] timidity

[js0000 at gmail.com (johnny)]

hi

> On Tue, Jul 16, 2019 at 11:16:21AM -0400, dan moylan wrote:
>> timidiy installed and appears to run, but no audio is heard.

> 2. /dev/dsp IS there, and the driver is loaded, but something else has
>     it open/locked.

> Some things to try:
>   lsof /dev/dsp/*

i don't know if this came about when updating debian, but that's when it 
came about for me. the problem was that timidity was starting *before* 
pulseaudio, so pulseaudio couldn't get the audio "files" to write to.

i solved it by killing the running timidity process (as root), which 
freed up the audio file semaphores (?) so that pulseaudio could grab 
them and send the sound out my speakers. there's prolly a way i can stop 
timidity from starting up, but for now, just manually killing that 
(timidity) process works for me.

good luck!