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Date:      Mon, 13 Oct 1997 09:28:47 -0700
From:      Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>
To:        Stephen Roome <steve@visint.co.uk>
Cc:        Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>, multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Who is interested in /dev/midi and /dev/synth ? 
Message-ID:  <199710131628.JAA24704@rah.star-gate.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 13 Oct 1997 13:09:00 BST." <Pine.BSF.3.95.971013130656.187Y-100000@dylan.visint.co.uk> 

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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





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