From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eemeli Kantola Subject: Re: Is sound in dosemu a myth? Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2003 11:11:00 +0200 Sender: linux-msdos-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <3FED4CA4.5090208@welho.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: linux-msdos@vger.kernel.org Justin Zygmont wrote: >>The biggest problem I am yet to overcome is the MIDI stuff. This is >>actually not a dosemu problem, but how do you people get TiMidity synth >>working WITH SoundBlaster sound effects at the same time? This needs >>some mixing, of course, but I haven't studied ALSA enough yet to do >>that. Can this be somehow done with ALSA's dmix plugin, or do I need a >>separate sound server of some kind? > > just out of curiousity, do you get the musical soundtrack, or just the > sound effects? MIDI music, yes. Just not with sound effects at the same time, yet. If I start dosemu with Timidity server running => midi, no sb effects. And if not, vice versa. So I'd just like to know if somebody has solved the problem with a fairly simple trick already, before I start an extensive study on ALSA and sound mixing. -Eemeli