Sound issues

The sound code has been the one thing causing me most headache. The file test/soundbug.py (from the tarball) show one of several things regarding programming that I don't understand (but know how to work around). So if you know how to program /dev/sequencer and /dev/music and have time to answer a few questions, please let me know.

With release 0.7.28 it seems that everything works, both with /dev/sequencer, /dev/music and using external midi player programs, with one exception:

If you use /dev/sequencer and don't have a awe32 soundcard, it is possible that you get piano sound instead of the percussion sounds.

Since I want to get version 1.0 out pretty soon, I need to know how the sound work on your hardware. I have no access to other hardware running linux, so I cannot test on anything but AMD K6 running SB awe32.

If you are don't have /dev/music or /dev/sequencer2, you can create with this command as root:

mknod /dev/music u 14 8