Found that midiplay was playing out of an itsy bitsy
teeny weeny (but not yellow polka dot) speeker mounted
on the Motherboard (Intel 865PBZ) inside the cabinet
and was drowned out by all the fans.

I can't seem to find any connector to jack the system
speaker into the SBLive! card. Alas.

Gan Uesli Starling wrote:
> Wondering why midiplay seems like it is working thus...
> 
> baal: {16} midiplay  -x -v -v -v
> Playing <Gubben Noa> (130 bytes) ...
> format=1 ntrks=1 divfmt=0 ticks=8
> DELAY    1 TRACK  0 MIDI 90 (2) 3c 7f
> DELAY    4 TRACK  0 MIDI 80 (2) 3c 00
> DELAY    1 TRACK  0 MIDI 90 (2) 3c 7f
> DELAY    4 TRACK  0 MIDI 80 (2) 3c 00
> DELAY    1 TRACK  0 MIDI 90 (2) 3c 7f
> DELAY    4 TRACK  0 MIDI 80 (2) 3c 00
> DELAY    1 TRACK  0 MIDI 90 (2) 40 7f
> DELAY    4 TRACK  0 MIDI 80 (2) 40 00
> DELAY    1 TRACK  0 MIDI 90 (2) 3e 7f
> DELAY    4 TRACK  0 MIDI 80 (2) 3e 00
> DELAY    1 TRACK  0 MIDI 90 (2) 3e 7f
> DELAY    4 TRACK  0 MIDI 80 (2) 3e 00
> DELAY    1 TRACK  0 MIDI 90 (2) 3e 7f
> DELAY    4 TRACK  0 MIDI 80 (2) 3e 00
> DELAY    1 TRACK  0 MIDI 90 (2) 41 7f
> DELAY    4 TRACK  0 MIDI 80 (2) 41 00
> DELAY    1 TRACK  0 MIDI 90 (2) 40 7f
> DELAY    4 TRACK  0 MIDI 80 (2) 40 00
> DELAY    1 TRACK  0 MIDI 90 (2) 40 7f
> DELAY    4 TRACK  0 MIDI 80 (2) 40 00
> DELAY    1 TRACK  0 MIDI 90 (2) 3e 7f
> DELAY    4 TRACK  0 MIDI 80 (2) 3e 00
> DELAY    1 TRACK  0 MIDI 90 (2) 3e 7f
> DELAY    4 TRACK  0 MIDI 80 (2) 3e 00
> DELAY    1 TRACK  0 MIDI 90 (2) 3c 7f
> DELAY    8 TRACK  0 MIDI 80 (2) 3c 00
> DELAY    0 TRACK  0 META 2f (0)
> baal: {17}
> 
> ...but I hear no sound. Calling to audiplay gives sound
> and I don't have anything as mute on my mixer. My sound
> card is SBLive! XMMS and Audacity give sound, just not
> midiplay.
> 
> Something simple, I hope?
> 
> TIA,
> 
> Gan
>