From owner-freebsd-multimedia Thu Jan 22 18:25:40 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA15704 for freebsd-multimedia-outgoing; Thu, 22 Jan 1998 18:25:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from greebo.tbs.com.au ([203.39.0.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id SAA15673 for ; Thu, 22 Jan 1998 18:25:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ahodges@tbs.com.au) Received: by greebo.tbs.com.au with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Server Internet Mail Connector Version 4.0.995.52) id <01BD27F4.3E3E3690@greebo.tbs.com.au>; Fri, 23 Jan 1998 11:44:20 +0930 Message-ID: From: Andrew Hodges To: "'cjb@efn.org'" Cc: "'freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG'" Subject: RE: Playing Midi files Date: Fri, 23 Jan 1998 11:44:19 +0930 X-Mailer: Microsoft Exchange Server Internet Mail Connector Version 4.0.995.52 Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Chris, you have almost the identical setup to me (I don't have the additional memory) I have also tried the drivers from 4Front Technologies the OSS/FreeBSD Drivers. I am not sure if we exhibit the same problems though. I haven't had a core dump, but when I do something like cat xxxxxx.au >/dev/audio it sounds really crappy. I get hissing that doesn;t sound anyhting like it is supposed to. Is this the same sort of thing as you? Regards Andrew Hodges >---------- >From: Chris Brunner[SMTP:cjb@efn.org] >Sent: Friday, January 23, 1998 11:13 AM >To: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG >Subject: Playing Midi files > >I have been trying to get midis to play well in FreeBSD since I got it, >but I've had no luck. I set up the VOXWARE stuff all fine and dandy, but >midis just sound really, really bad, if they play at all. Sometimes, >there is no playback at all, sometimes I get a core dump. When I say they >sound really bad, I mean the notes are the wrong instraments or not >played, and sound off-tone. >I have a SB32 PnP configured with Luigi's PnP driver running on FreeBSD >2.2.5. The card has 2MB of onboard memory for loading soundfonts. >Thanks a lot, this problem has been bothering me for the 2 years I've been >running FreeBSD. > >- Chris Brunner - >- cjb@efn.org - > >