Just thought you guys might like to hear a couple of compliments about your inginuity on the integration of sblive drivers (wew! about time!!) Fw: SB Live and Mandrake 7 "Ben Zen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<88t6v1$pa5$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > Indeed, > I also tried to play a few MP3's with KMP3 KDE player,,, It is awesome > good.. It also has a WINAMP skin look alike. :) > > To my surprise it also played VERY WELL a MIDI file ? > I haven't read all the info, but I wonder if I can use the SoundFonts > I have collectioned since a year.. I have Gigabytes of them :D > > And finally, you might notice it is not possible to play a WAVE > or a MIDI file at the same time as you play a MP3 ? > Looks like current drivers do not allow audio buffer streaming. > > I recall it might be supported later with XFree86 4 ?.. Or I'm wrong. > > Anyway, > Things aren't so bad for SBLive and Mandrake 7 out of the box. > .... I just can't wait to get my hands on some code,... There are some > curious bugs I'd like to solve before Y3K... ;*) > > But honestly, trying to understand how to install the DxR2 drivers, > was a humbling experience.... I shall read much more about Unix > basic things even before I continue my book on programming Linux. > > This is insane... How come it is Soo complicated to install a new > driver in this OS ? > * Unzip the patch... Apply the patch to the Kernel > (Watch-out for version compatibility's.. I may screw-up Mandrake) > * Get the UDF File system patch installed too. > * Recompile the Kernel ? > * Lilo and configure the DxR2 hardware ?..... > ..And the list goes on a few more HTML pages...<duh> > > I bet it's time for a few Windoze users like me to introduce the (.inf) > concept ;-P > > Regards, > -Ben'Z > > Tim Sander wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > >I haven't made it back a long ways thru the posts to see if this is well > >known yet, but I just wanted to mention how nice it is to have the SB > >Live working smoothly under Mandrake 7.0. I didn't have to do a thing > >to get it to work except to turn on system sounds in X and play CDs. > >Volume control is a bit strange...but it works! FYI. > >
