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To: Stephen Roome <steve@visint.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Who is interested in /dev/midi and /dev/synth ? 
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From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>
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>From The Desk Of Stephen Roome :
> 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... 

Care to elaborate under what circumstances or which programs causes guspnp15
to crashe your system?

	Tnks,
	Amancio