Re: Linux PCI soundcard

From: Rob Davis (robdavis_at_telus.net)
Date: 02/08/04 

Date: Sun, 08 Feb 2004 06:04:41 GMT

Andreas Janssen wrote:
> Hello
>
> Rob Davis (<robdavis@telus.net>) wrote:
>
>
>>I have a Sound Blaster sound card, which works well except it won't
>>work on midi. It does work on W98, but I want to get rid of M$.
>>Is there another sound card that would work well even with midi?
>>I'm running Fedora.
>
>
> If you only want to play some midi files, the easiest way would probably
> be to use some software midi player like timidity. And I think it is
> also possible to set up midi with SB cards, though I don't know with
> which SB cards it is possible.
>
> best regards
> Andreas Janssen
>
I did see a comment that there was a problem with midi.
I did manage to play an older midi (floppy). I hoped I could find
another soundcard that did not have the midi problem.
Is it possible that the AC97 problem, which made my onboard soundcard
unusable has now been fixed?