Re: [Cooker] Mandrake 9.1 Should be Delayed

[Danny Tholen]

On Monday 10 March 2003 21:33, George Mitchell wrote:

>
> I have nothing against proprietary software in general or soundfonts in
> particular.  I only find it odd that cards that provide /dev/sequencer
> support under free software should see that support discontinued when
> the source is freely available.  So now the question becomes 'Does
> anybody out there have /dev/sequencer support without having to use
> soundfonts?'
You have it backwards. AFAIK: On the sblive, you *have* to use soundfonts. It 
cannot synthesise notes itself. AFAIK it is a hardware limitation.
On other cards, it might be different.