MIDI Modules (was: Re: [plug] [OT] What is a Windows Freeze?)

[I am the LinuxAlien]

Thanks for that. To use MIDI what modules do I have to load? It is Deb, 
with a 2.4 kernel. I have a Vibra 128 Sound card.
Thanks
Tim
At 22:33 09/12/2002 +0800, you wrote:
>I am the LinuxAlien wrote:
>
>>I was wondering what exactly happens when windows freezes. The times when 
>>the screen remains them same, the mouse doesn't move and pressing Num 
>>Lock doesn't turn on the little green light. Whats is the computer doing? 
>>Is the OS still functioning but has such a high load it can't even send a 
>>refresh signal to the mouse, keyboard, or video card? What's is the CPU 
>>doing? Is it just sitting there idle like the hard disk? When my Windows 
>>box froze today it had to do with my MIDI port and windows trying to 
>>access the MIDI port it with its little MIDI mapper and me using a really 
>>expensive sound card with built on hardware synthesizer and playing back 
>>MIDI compositions through the hardware synthesizer. My guess is that the 
>>hardware had a hiccup and that caused every thing to crash. Obviously 
>>this could still happen in Linux as it was hardware.
>>So... What is the CPU doing, what is the OS doing?
>>Thanks
>>Tim
>>p.s. Anybody know of a good MIDI composer program for Linux that supports 
>>Lyrics?
>>
>>LinuxAlien
>>
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>For a Linux midi composer have a look at Muse.
>http://muse.seh.de/screenshots.php  or Rosegarden
>http://rosegarden.sourceforge.net/ , both of these have lyrics capabilities.
>
>Lawrie

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