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You can load "sound fonts" (wave table samples for the midi sequencer) into the sound card's memory, and then use those to play MIDI files. (Your ALSA drivers must have been built with the --with-sequencer=yes configure option.)
1) You need the "sfxload" program. If you use Debian Woody, it is in the awe-drv package, otherwise grab it from http://mitglied.lycos.de/iwai/awesfx-0.4.4.tar.bz2
and compile. (It is released under the [GPL]). It is designed for the SB AWE32 and AEW64, but works with SBLive cards too.
+This was recently (March 2004) added to Debian Unstable as the "awesfx" package.
2) Load a "soundfont". The CDROM that came with your soundcard has some... for example, "./sfxload 8mbgmsfx.sf2". You can check that it is loaded into the soundcard's memory by doing "cat /proc/asound/card0/wavetableD1":
Device: Emu10k1
Ports: 4
