From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Tranter Date: Tue, 01 Jun 1999 21:34:03 +0000 Subject: Re: Help with SoftOSS Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-sound@vger.kernel.org I have been able to use it. Briefly what I did was: - download GUS samples from a site such as ftp://archive.cs.umbc.edu/pub/midia/instruments.tar.gz - compile the SoftOSS driver as a kernel module - load modules using "insmod softoss2" - test with an application that supports GUS, e.g. playmidi -g somefile.mid Some other notes: - the default is 32 voices, 32000 samples/sec - you can configure (at kernel compile time) the number of voices, sampling rates etc.. - it slows down the machine significantly (tested on a 166MHz Pentium with a SB16 PnP) - there were errors in playback and some MIDI files did not play at all (according to the vendor its still a proof of concept) - you might want to explore using TImidity as an alternative to get the same results (i.e. high quality playback of MIDI files on a non-wavetable soundcard). I see significantly better results with this. On Tue, 01 Jun 1999, DAVID BALAZIC wrote: > Hi! > > I'm trying to use SoftOSS ( kernel 2.2.9 ), but with no > success yet. The kernel docs are pretty useless. > > Is there any FAQ/HOWTO/whatever, that can help ? > Anyone actually using it ? -- Jeff Tranter (mailto:tranter@pobox.com http://www.pobox.com/~tranter) I will not be pushed,filed,stamped,indexed,briefed,debriefed,or numbered.