From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stas Sergeev Subject: Re: Sound support (2), using hardware directly Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2005 13:45:08 +0400 Message-ID: <42E211A4.4040707@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: > I have ran it succesfully on my AMD Athlon @ 1GHz, and I know there are > softsynths that need much less, although not for Linux. As I said, you can tune timidity++ to work even on 386, just disable some effects processing. There are also the alternative synthesizers, like fluidsynth, as someone pointed out to me, but I am not sure if they work as an alsa sequencer backend, or have the server interface for midid. > running a softsynth inside Dosemu... That is possible for FM synth, but you really don't want to distribute the instrument patchsets with dosemu. > Well, the problem seemed to be at the time that the (OPL3) driver from > ALSA was conflicting with the OPL3 being accessed directly. In this case simply not loading the OPL3 driver from ALSA would help, but IIRC it doesn't.