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From: Stephen Roome <steve@visint.co.uk>
To: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
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Subject: Re: Who is interested in /dev/midi and /dev/synth ?
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On Sun, 12 Oct 1997, Luigi Rizzo wrote:

> My audio driver does not support /dev/midi and /dev/synth at the
> moment. There are stubs for them though, and one (/dev/midi) is
> probably trivial to implement. Things are slightly more complex for
> /dev/synth since there are different synthesis devices on different
> hardware. Besides, timidity probably does a nice job at least for the
> casual user.
> 
> I am wondering if there is anyone who really needs /dev/midi and
> /dev/synth, and used them on the old sound driver.  If you do, (Uncle
> Sam's finger pointed at you) speak up, telling which apps you use which
> do not work with the new audio driver, where I can find them, and how
> are you going to help in implementing these devices.

Last time I used rosegarden it was okay, I installed guspnp15 and it has a
tendency now to blow up and freeze the machine, although this might have
been when I did something stupid... 

I don't know, but does rosegarden work for you, I'd love to actually have
it as being usable for my AWE64. For now, I'll be happy sticking with
guspnp15 until something new and wonderful comes along and I get more than
just sound in quake..

Thanks,

	Steve Roome.

Steve Roome - Vision Interactive Ltd.
Tel:+44(0)117 9730597 Home:+44(0)976 241342
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