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David Schultz wrote:
> Thus spake Thanjee Neefam <thanjee@fastmail.fm>:
> 
>>I was very happy when compiling my 5.0 kernel. For the first time "device
>>midi" compiled without giving any errors. This abnormal excitement only
>>led to misery when I discovered after rebooting that there still was no
>>MIDI. 
>>Is MIDI going to be implemented soon? Who is working on it? Can I help
>>them? (I am not a very good programmer, but I can hack pre existing code,
>>and I am good at testing). MIDI is the ONLY thing stopping me from
>>running FreeBSD exclusively.
> 
> 
> FYI, the non-free OSS driver supports MIDI:
> 
> 	http://www.opensound.com/bsd.html

Apparently even this is not complete, however:
http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=1250661+0+archive/2003/freebsd-current/20030323.freebsd-current

One interesting thing to note from that thread, is that Yuriy Tsibizov 
is into the development of this stuff, but does not have all the 
equipment needed to conduct testing.  I don't know what hardware you 
have, but this is what he's been working on:
http://chibis.persons.gfk.ru/audigy/

Pete...