On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 01:13:56PM -0700, 4625 wrote:
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> On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 01:59:43PM +1200, Paul M wrote:
> >>>>> I like fluidsynth.
> >>>> Well, I got it. Could you explain me how do you ran it?
> >
> > Are you serious?
> Is it looks like joke?
> fluidsynth -ni Unison.sf2 beethoven_-_5th_simphony.mid
> fluidsynth: warning: Ignoring sample *KPianoB5: can't use ROM samples
> fluidsynth: error: Couldn't set libsndio audio parameters as desired
> Failed to create the audio driver

your soundcard apparently can't do 48kHz 16-bit stereo.

hmm ... all ac97(4) and azalia(4) cards can do that ... you're using
FreeBSD 4.11 ... hmm

I'm going to take a wild guess and suggest you try using '-r 44100'
on the fluidsynth command line.

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> >>> the way the manual says to.
> >> What make you think that I did not saw the manual?
> >
> > You should probably stop posting about now, you're starting to make
> > yourself look realy bad.
> 
> Your are talking about unrelated topics, Paul. I do not care about how
> everything looks there and I did not ask your opinion about how I look...
> Good or bad - it is indifferent for me. By the way, absence of constructive
> reply starting to make you look really bad.

you've now complained about at least two "performance" issues, yet,
with neither complaint, did you send a dmesg, despite having been
pointed to instructions for reporting problems that tell you to
include a dmesg.

btw, I tried finding 'beethoven_-_5th_simphony.mid' to see if I could
reproduce your problem or at least have some basic idea of what's
going on.

but I'll leave it at a "performance" issue.  you're probably running
a 486 with an ISA soundcard anyway.

oh, wait.  I found a dmesg: PR 6220.  PII @ 349 MHz w/ sb@isapnp

ok, now I can believe you may have a "performance" issue.

PS do you really think that's the kind of system most people would use
as a "desktop" in 2009?  after all, this subthread started with you
saying OpenBSD might not be suitable as a desktop system, because of your
issue with timidity "performance".

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