Package: playmidi
Version: 2.4debian-4
Severity: normal

I just noticed that my 'everything is played waaaayyyy too fast' problem 
is solved, if I play everything with

playmidi -t10 <file>

(If I use the "-r" parameter, the behaviour changes:
        with -t10:
                the music is too slow
        without -t10:
                the tempo is correct, but the beat is very uneven, can 
                the 400MHz CPU be overloaded with the text output??? It 
                is 95% idle...
)

I don't know if the error is in playmidi or in the kernel driver 
(playmidi is the only 'real' midi player I found), but I suspect this 
may be connected to the changed system time frequency ($HZ) in the 2.6 
kernel. (2.4: 100Hz, 2.6: 1000Hz or (later 2.6es) configurable with 
default 250Hz). Not able to test this, I just file the bug against the 
player program, where it manifests itself; please reassign, if 
necessary.

I have a trusty old ISA "SB16 value" card, which for some reason only 
works with the OSS driver, modules "sb" and "opl3" (the ALSA driver doesn't 
detect the hardware, shame on the developers/testers!).

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (850, 'testing'), (800, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i586)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.12-1-386
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

Versions of packages playmidi depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]     1.4.58         Debian configuration management sy
ii  libc6                     2.3.5-6        GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libncurses5               5.4-9          Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libx11-6                  6.8.2.dfsg.1-7 X Window System protocol client li
ii  libxaw8                   6.8.2.dfsg.1-7 X Athena widget set library
ii  libxt6                    6.8.2.dfsg.1-7 X Toolkit Intrinsics
ii  xlibs                     6.8.2.dfsg.1-7 X Window System client libraries m

playmidi recommends no packages.

-- debconf information:
* playmidi/options:


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