Re: [Bug-freedink] Bug: no music when Timidity is set to use a soundfont

[Sylvain Beucler]

Hi DaVince,

On Mon, Aug 08, 2011 at 09:25:05PM +0200, Vincent Beers wrote:
> When I change /etc/timidity.cfg to use a soundfont instead of the standard
> Fluid patch set, FreeDink will no longer play music.
> 
> My config file looks like this:
> 
> dir /home/vincent/sf
> soundfont "The Ultimate Megadrive Soundfont.SF2" order=0
> 
> Testing it with command-line timidity works fine. Same goes when I try other
> soundfonts. I'm on 64-bit Fedora 15, with FreeDink version 1.08.20101114.

FreeDink relies on SDL_mixer for the sound, which itself uses a light,
built-in version of timidity, which may explain the difference between
command-line timidity and FreeDink.

- Do you experience the same issue with other games that also rely on
  SDL_mixer for MIDI playing?  A quick search shows that gnujump does,
  check if you can find other ones.

- Do you get any error message if you run it from a terminal?

-- 
Sylvain