From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stas Sergeev Subject: Re: Sound support (2), using hardware directly Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 21:56:41 +0400 Message-ID: <42E13359.7070809@aknet.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Sender: linux-msdos-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: linux-msdos@vger.kernel.org Hello. Julius Schwartzenberg wrote: > to have both at the same time. My laptop does have hardware mixing, but > it isn't very fast (Pentium III 500MHz, 128MB RAM), so I don't know how > fast a softsynth will work. Softsynth involves timidity++, which requires ~P4 by default, but can be tuned even for 386 I think. > Yes I noticed your pc-speaker driver in ALSA :) Yes, but the kernel interface for it is still not in the kernel, thats the problem. > Is the goal really to get full sound and music from Dosemu through a > plain pc-speaker? The goal is to make it compatible with the modern sound systems like alsa, and with the cheap soundcards without the HW mixing and midi. The pc-speaker, being the one of such a cards, will work just in case, but for me it is probably more important than any other cards out there:) > I understand the current OPL3 modules aren't suitable to be used in > this case? Of course. > I personally indeed do not really care about needing root access, > so a working solution using $_ports would work for me. Would you > recommend sending an e-mail to the ALSA mailing list about this? About that the $_ports doesn't work very well for the native OPL3? I don't think they'll help here.