[SDL] [OT slighly] SDL_Mixer and timidity -- need help

[Peter Jay Salzman]

hi all,

doom legacy's SDL based executable, lsdldoom, uses SDL_mixer to play the
background midi music.

i'm trying to figure out why doom legacy doesn't play the nice
background midi music when i play doom on my debian testing system.

there is a thread on newdoom.com about this:

   http://forums.newdoom.com/showthread.php?s=&postid=173446#post173446

supposedly, there's an environment variable that tells SDL_mixer where
timidity is, but i'm having trouble finding what this environment
variable is.  does anybody know?

in addition, i'm having a very difficult time trying to verify that
SDL_mixer knows ANYTHING about timidity at all!

   p at satan$ cd /usr/lib
   p at satan$ grep -i timidity *SDL*
   p at satan$ strings *SDL* | grep -i timidity
   p at satan$ cd /usr/include/SDL/
   p at satan$ grep -i timidity *
   p at satan$ 

nothing.  there's no sign that anything in SDL knows anything about
timidity at all.

here's the packages installed on my debian testing system:

p at satan$ COLUMNS=110 dpkg -l "libsdl*" | grep -v 'no description available'
libsdl-image1.2      1.2.3-2  image loading library for Simple Di
libsdl-image1.2-dev  1.2.3-2  development files for SDL 1.2 image
libsdl-mixer1.2      1.2.5-3  mixer library for Simple DirectMedi
libsdl-mixer1.2-dev  1.2.5-3  development files for SDL1.2 mixer 
libsdl-net1.2        1.2.5-3  network library for Simple DirectMe
libsdl-net1.2-dev    1.2.5-3  Development files for SDL network l
libsdl-ttf1.2        1.2.2-5  TrueType font library for Simple Di
libsdl-ttf1.2-dev    1.2.2-5  development files for libsdl-ttf1.2
libsdl1.2-dev        1.2.6-2  Simple DirectMedia Layer developmen
libsdl1.2debian      1.2.6-2  Simple DirectMedia Layer
libsdl1.2debian-all  1.2.6-2  Simple DirectMedia Layer (with all 

any ideas why doom legacy's lsdldoom isn't playing midi?

should i be seeing references to timidity in the strings output of SDL_mixer?

thanks!
pete

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