From: mcchow AT onebox DOT com (Jabez McClelland)
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Subject: Re: Allegro: slow install_sound() on 486
Date: 28 Nov 2001 19:50:32 -0800
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote in message news:<Pine DOT SUN DOT 3 DOT 91 DOT 1011128103324 DOT 659J-100000 AT is>...
> On 27 Nov 2001, Jabez McClelland wrote:
> 
> > install_sound(DIGI_AUTODETECT,MIDI_NONE,NULL) still
> > takes 36 seconds.  Rats.  Any further ideas?  I'm thinking of copying
> > the code for install_sound() to my_install_sound() and adding a bunch
> > of timing diagnostics... But that's messy.  Surely someone out there
> > knows what's going on in this function and can chime in?
> 
> Since the sources are freely available, that someone could be you.
> Adding time measurements to the function and reporting results here
> might just be the missing piece in this puzzle; armed with that
> information, either you or someone else could find the reason and
> suggest a solution.

Problem solved!  This is really moronic of me.  I never ran setup.exe,
so I never made an allegro.cfg file.  Apparently things still run
without the allegro.cfg file, but the routine must wait for a timeout
of some kind.  Now that I have allegro.cfg, it's lightning fast!
(well, it's still a 486...)

Thought I'd post the resolution to this in case there are any lurkers.

How about adding the following FAQ:

Q: Why does install_sound take so long to execute?
A: Be sure you have run setup.exe and created a configuration file
allegro.cfg.

Bye,

Jabez