ports/113827: when trying to play midis using playmidi "/dev/sequencer: No such file or directory"

[hip0]

>Number:         113827
>Category:       ports
>Synopsis:       when trying to play midis using playmidi "/dev/sequencer: No such file or directory"
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-ports-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Jun 18 17:50:04 GMT 2007
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     hip0
>Release:        6.2-RELEASE
>Organization:
>Environment:
FreeBSD jericho.pcfreak 6.2-RELEASE-p5 FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p5 #2: Sun May 27 02:44:20 EEST 2007     root at jericho.pcfreak:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/JERICHO  i386

>Description:
I have installed the port of playmidi and tried to listen to some midi files but when I try to run a midi with playmidi I get this err "open /dev/sequencer: No such file or directory".
%playmidi *.mid
Playmidi 2.4 Copyright (C) 1994-1997 Nathan I. Laredo, AWE32 by Takashi Iwai
This is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
For details please see the file COPYING.
open /dev/sequencer: No such file or directory
I have googled around but haven't found anywhere a fix. There was some discussions on that topic which suggested to use the audigy as a possible workaround but installing the emu10kx port and using it as a kernel module doesn't fix the problem. This means the current state of the port is absolutely useless.
I hope the port developer or the FreeBSD developers team would take a look at the problem and solve it. 
>How-To-Repeat:
Install the playmidi port then try to run some midi file you'll surely get the error "open /dev/sequencer: No such file or directory"
>Fix:
None

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