Comment 10 for bug 101936

If the user already has midi configured, installing Timidity wouldn't mess that up, right? But at the very least, wouldn't prboom start using Timidity instead of the user-configured midi? However...

Maybe it's just me, but since I've never seen hardware midi working out of the box, I'm thinking that maybe it's just far easier to make Timidity or some kind of midi emulator and sound bank be a dependency of any program which requires midi. Not only does it seem like out-of-the-box hardware midi device support is a pretty long way away from being a reality, but midi emulation doesn't take much CPU power. I have an old processor, and prboom runs wonderfully with Timidity installed (aside from a few bugs here and there that the game has).