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[Christian Brandt <brandtc AT psi5.com>]

sindi keesan schrieb:

> How would I set up the Yamaha XG sound card to work in linux (after 
> shrinking Windows with Partition Resizer or Partition Manager)?    If it 
> needs ALSA sound, would it be simpler to install SW10.2 (and will it fit 
> into 500MB without source code or compiler?)

 The DB50XG is a pure GMIDI/XGMIDI-Board. No special drivers needed, 
just the plain and stupid "Port 330" UART-driver. Actually there is a 
difference between DB50XG and normal General Midi Board: The DB50XG can 
interpret the socalled XG extension. But it is still normal Midi besides 
that, no direct programming of the chipset.

 The SW50XG software synthesizer is a windows-driver playing through 
normal wave-output. So no chance at all for Linux-Support.

 XG is a rather wide used extension of MIDI and a really powerfull one.

 Christian Brandt