# HG changeset patch # User Matti Hamalainen # Date 1425085053 -7200 # Node ID d8c1c1c5f60962e09e6ad12d306d27ba1e991a43 # Parent 7527468689e77a3900ecb14d679ebad4ae0de2c5 Update installation instructions. diff -r 7527468689e7 -r d8c1c1c5f609 INSTALL --- a/INSTALL Sat Oct 04 18:06:47 2014 +0300 +++ b/INSTALL Sat Feb 28 02:57:33 2015 +0200 @@ -56,21 +56,13 @@ SID-chip available. This, however, comes at high cost: libSIDPlayFP tends to eat CPU like popcorn. - It is also less spread, not packaged in distributions (that I know of, - at the time of writing of this), so you may have to roll your own. - - Also the API-stability of libSIDPlayFP is not yet 100%, there may - be changes. Bugs are evident, though many of them will be fixed - eventually. + +Conclusion thus is as follows: If you are using a VERY old system without +much spare CPU-power, choose libSIDPlay v1. On any system that is not +older than a decade, you probably want libSIDPlayFP. - -Conclusion thus is as follows: If you are using a VERY old system with not -much spare CPU-power, choose libSIDPlay v1. On a relatively "recent" -system (Pentium-M, Pentium4 1GHz+) you may wish to choose libSIDPlay v2. - -On a Intel Core2 or Intel Core i5/7 level system you could choose -libSIDPlayFP, if you have approximately ~20% CPU to spare for -playing the tunes. +There isn't any reason to choose libSIDPlay v2 over "FP" nowadays, +unless you are somehow stuck with a system that can't handle FP. Where to get XMMS? @@ -97,14 +89,6 @@ $ apt-get install libsidplay1-dev -Where to get and how to install libSIDPlay2? -============================================ -You might have it in your $OS_DISTRIBUTION of preference. For example -Debian should have a compatible set of packages available, try: - -$ apt-get install libsidplay2-dev libresid-builder-dev - - Where to get libSIDPlayFP? ========================== @@ -118,6 +102,14 @@ Earlier and later ones might not, there is no guarantee. +Where to get and how to install libSIDPlay2? +============================================ +You might have it in your $OS_DISTRIBUTION of preference. For example +Debian should have a compatible set of packages available, try: + +$ apt-get install libsidplay2-dev libresid-builder-dev + + Building a Mercurial-version ============================ To build a version of XMMS-SID from Mercurial repository, @@ -185,8 +177,11 @@ Post-installation configuration =============================== To gain full advantage of using XMMS-SID, you need to configure it. -XMMS-SID can be configured just like any other XMMS plugin, in XMMS -do as follows: +When running for the first time, XMMS-SID will show its configuration +dialog automatically. + +Afterwards it can be configured just like any other XMMS plugin, +in XMMS do as follows: -> Press -> Select "Audio I/O Plugins"-tab