How to play midis in Linux?

I installed playmidi, but it asks for /dev/sequencer? WTF is that?

...and why would I want to play midis? Well I want to listen to some Gameboy Tetris music while I code

[mdwatts]

First try 'ls -al /dev/sequencer' to see if the device exists. If not, then as root

mknod -m 777 /dev/sequencer c 14 1

You can also do a Google ( www.google.com/linux ) search for /dev/sequencer to find out more information on the subject.

Also have a look in /usr/share/doc/FAQ or HTML or LDP or HOWTO and you will most likely find documentation that explains devices such as 'sequencer'.