I demand that Ralf Neubauer may or may not have written... > On Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 04:46:01PM +0000, Darren Salt wrote: >>> I don't know if the error is in playmidi or in the kernel driver >>> (playmidi is the only 'real' midi player I found), >> You could see how lxmusserv copes. (You'll need lxdoom-x11 or lxdoom-svga >> to be able to make any real use of it.)
> The lxdoom background music sounds ok. Not too fast, no uneven beat. *That* says playmidi bug. > Maybe playmidi is using a slighly different interface or running into one > of the not-so-good-defined features of OSS? It /could/ be the latter. Something tells me that this isn't going to be easy to find and fix; I don't have a suitable card for testing. (I used to have one; I don't recall having any problems with it and the OSS drivers.) >>> 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!). >> Well, if you know what I/O ports, interrupts and DMA channels are being >> used for the card, you can always modprobe snd_sb16 and friends with the >> appropriate parameters. Presumably, you're familiar with isapnp... > sb irq=5 io=0x220 mpu_io=0x330 dma=1 dma16=5 > opl3 io=0x388 > works in /etc/modules, That looks reasonably sane, from what I remember. > snd-sb16 irq=5 port=0x220 mpu_port=0x330 dma8=1 dma16=5 isapnp=0 > doesn't work, I had tested various settings of isapnp and the other > parameters before grumpily settling for OSS. A second card in another > machine with irq 7 and 2.4 alsa modules doesn't work as well. :-\ >> FWIW, the kernel developers are planning to remove those OSS drivers which >> have adequate ALSA replacements. So if you haven't reported your ALSA >> problem against the appropriate package, you should do so reasonably soon. > Yes, I really want to use ALSA as well.. The driver is part of the kernel, > so do I file a bug against linux-image-2.6.12-286-1 in the BTS? I would say so (and file the bug number here for reference). > This looks like the debian way. Or do I have to get an account on > https://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/ just for filing this bug??? Hmm, you > can't answer this, I suppose, just thinking in public.. It may be worth mentioning there too, but before you do, I think that you should at least check kernel 2.6.14.<latest> and possibly an ALSA development snapshot. -- | Darren Salt | nr. Ashington, | d youmustbejoking,demon,co,uk | Debian, | Northumberland | s zap,tartarus,org | RISC OS | Toon Army | @ | We've got Souness, we don't want him If you wish to succeed, consult three old people. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
