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Date:      Sun, 3 Feb 2002 07:17:39 -0800 (PST)
From:      nil <linuxdvd@yahoo.com>
To:        freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org
Cc:        dinjo@touchtunes.com
Subject:   Re: Playmidi & SBLive
Message-ID:  <20020203151739.79536.qmail@web10906.mail.yahoo.com>

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Hi,

I found your posting in a google search...

I've heard many similar complaints about playmidi, and perhaps
after 6 years of inaction on my part, it's time to revisit the
code to work around it or else convince the sound driver
maintainers that it really wasn't a good idea to eliminate
the /dev/sequencer api for new drivers.

Either that or much new kernel code must be written to support
/dev/sequencer for all the new hardware out there.  An old SB16
will work just fine with my external midi hardware, but a new
SB Live will not.

I have two choices... one is to write a user-space library that
will emulate the /dev/sequencer interface and keep the rest of
playmidi as is... the other is to get off my butt and release
a 3.0 version of playmidi.  2.5 is almost 6 years old now.

-- Nathan Laredo
laredo at gnu dot org and playmidi at nathanlaredo dot com

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