Re: [Cooker] Mandrake 9.1 Should be Delayed

[George Mitchell]

Danny Tholen wrote:

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.



 

Well, if I install an old ISA sound card with a Cirrus Logic or ALS 
chipset, and load Mandrake 7.1 and run sndconfig, it will first 
configure sound, and THEN midi, and presto, I will have FREE 
/dev/sequencer support without soundfonts.  You could do it with 
Mandrake 7.1 and free software, but now there apparently is no way to do 
it anymore, so that feature has been effectively taken away.