From owner-freebsd-multimedia Thu Sep 21 18:28: 3 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from tisch.mail.mindspring.net (tisch.mail.mindspring.net [207.69.200.157]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40BA537B443 for ; Thu, 21 Sep 2000 18:28:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ix.netcom.com (user-2ini85e.dialup.mindspring.com [165.121.32.174]) by tisch.mail.mindspring.net (8.9.3/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA09416 for ; Thu, 21 Sep 2000 21:27:59 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <39CAB59C.3683A258@ix.netcom.com> Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 18:27:57 -0700 From: Ben Speirs X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Cc: multimedia Subject: Re: Can't open MIDI device References: <39C2EFAB.48D57D2B@ix.netcom.com> <39C30923.73F3878B@cs.strath.ac.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Roger Hardiman wrote: > > Ben > > > Can't open MIDI device '/dev/sequencer', errno 6 (Device not configured) > > > Is this typical for all sound cards? > > I remember reading about development of the > > "newmidi" several months back. Is it still going or did it die? > > There is no 'midi' or 'sequencer' support in FreeBSD 4.x > yet for any sound card in the newpcm driver so you > will get this with all sound cards. > > As for newmidi, the code is already in -current undergoing > testing. > I've not tried it myself so I've no idea how good it is > but I'm sure it will be merged in to the 4.x-stable branch > at some point in the future. > > Roger In the interim is it possible to use timidity++ as a device? If so, how do I set it up to take data intended for /dev/sequencer? Thanks. -- -Ben Speirs To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message