[linux-audio-user] Rewrite sfxload for native ALSA

[Mark Constable]

> Robert Jonsson wrote in answer to Eduardo Guerrero:
> The SB-Live soundcard has built in synth capabilities but no internal 
> sounds. You have to load a soundfont with the utility sfxload (available 
> in the aweutils package). This also implies that you need to setup 
> OSS-compatibility support in ALSA since the awe utils use that.

I anyone aware of ANY non-OSS tool to load soundfonts into
an SBlive card ?

If not, would anyone be interested in looking in to how to
rewrite sfxload so it, at least, uses the native ALSA API ?

Even with ALSA in the 2.6 kernel (yay, no more modules) and
most apps now converted to ALSA/jack I am still stuck with
this small but useful utility. I get around it by simply not
using the the soundfont capability of my SBlive. Pity.

--markc