-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 George Mitchell wrote: > Buchan Milne wrote: >
> Ah, so this is a proprietary technology using non-free 'soundfonts'. > What happened to the old synthesizer OPL3 method used back in the 7.1 > days? Well, you are always free to develop free sound fonts (there are free tools out there to do this), just as we need to develop more realy good screen fonts. > That was totally free and worked without a hitch. When the 2.4 > kernel came along, it went away. I am sure you can still do it, if you swap to oss and use the emu10k1 tools, but AFAIK the sound-font method produces much better quality. > And now the only posts so far > confirming /dev/sequencer allude to a proprietary thing from Creative. And what proprietary software would that be (besides the sound fonts). > Sounds to me like we are going backward. Does anyone else out there > have a totally free solution for /dev/sequencer or has that been taken > away from us? Search for free (speech) sound fonts. In the meantime, use the ones that come on your windows driver CD. Of course, if you are to continue your crusade for replacing this sort of thing with free software, please start reverse-engineering firmware (ie the software for another device) for things like USB scanners etc. The only difference between them and (say) your BIOS, or firmware for CD-Writers etc is the fact that they are uploaded into volatile (instead of flashable) memory. So, please replace your BIOS with an open-source one first ... (since that is one your computer, not on a peripheral device, hence restricts your freedom more than your sound card). Buchan - -- |--------------Another happy Mandrake Club member--------------| Buchan Milne Mechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work +27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 8828820x121 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za GPG Key http://ranger.dnsalias.com/bgmilne.asc 1024D/60D204A7 2919 E232 5610 A038 87B1 72D6 AC92 BA50 60D2 04A7 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE+bOdGrJK6UGDSBKcRAlOEAKCPrXt6G1sBSiRtaCIjkSI0uuq9LQCfZ+V0 V7JwDd+pPLBn0hWgERxjMTc= =7hqV -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
