On Mon, 27 Nov 2000, Derek D. Martin wrote:
> I have an SBLive! card which I believe is the same chipset as the SB
> PCI 128 card.
Nope. Not even close. The SB Live! uses the EMU10K chipset, which Creative
Labs obtained when the purchased E-mu Systems. The Sound Blaster PCI 128 is
effectively an Ensoniq AudioPCI, which uses the ES1371 chip. Creative bought
Ensoniq and relabeled the AudioPCI. In fact, in a PCI device list, the card
still identifies itself as an AudioPCI. :-)
If you've got an idle minute sometime, take a look at:
http://www.creaf.com/company/subsidiaries/
Creative Labs follows the Microsoft strategy of product development: Let your
competitions fight it out, and then buy the winner. They have not created an
original product in over five years.
> I think you'll find that the sequencer works perfectly well under the ALSA
> drivers.
A year ago when I checked, it did not. Let's see... doesn't look good.
According to the documentation on the ALSA site, ALSA MIDI is in a pretty
sorry state. In fact, it claims only one card's MIDI synth works at all --
the SB AWE. Not the Live, interestingly enough. All the documentation I
could find is pretty out-of-date... perhaps the software itself is further
along?
Do you know if ALSA has a built-in, software-based MIDI synth yet? I know
there was talk of one. Right now, Timidity works pretty well for me, but
anything that tries to use /dev/sequencer directly doesn't work, which is
annoying.
> The ALSA drivers aren't yet included in the stock kernel source, but
> they're being integrated with 2.5 I believe.
Heh heh. We haven't even got 2.4 yet! ;-)
> The on-line documentation has improved drastically over when I first tried
> setting them up ...
Hmmm. Most of the documentation I find seems to be current only to 1999.
Is there some more recent documentation somewhere?
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