From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 23 18:51:20 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77AFA16A4CE for ; Sat, 23 Apr 2005 18:51:20 +0000 (GMT) Received: from lakermmtao10.cox.net (lakermmtao10.cox.net [68.230.240.29]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7C1D43D49 for ; Sat, 23 Apr 2005 18:51:19 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from conrads@cox.net) Received: from dolphin.local.net ([68.11.70.216]) by lakermmtao10.cox.net (InterMail vM.6.01.04.00 201-2131-118-20041027) with ESMTP id <20050423185117.TYQS7787.lakermmtao10.cox.net@dolphin.local.net>; Sat, 23 Apr 2005 14:51:17 -0400 Received: from dolphin.local.net (conrads@localhost.local.net [127.0.0.1]) by dolphin.local.net (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j3NIpDG5094606; Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:51:17 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from conrads@cox.net) Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:51:12 -0500 From: "Conrad J. Sabatier" To: Andre Guibert de Bruet Message-ID: <20050423135112.63c74617@dolphin.local.net> In-Reply-To: <20050423023605.A68772@lexi.siliconlandmark.com> References: <20050418232455.2d530890@dolphin.local.net> <5265.1113888748@critter.freebsd.dk> <20050419130048.6e545269@dolphin.local.net> <20050423023605.A68772@lexi.siliconlandmark.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 1.0.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; amd64-portbld-freebsd6.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org cc: Mathew Kanner Subject: Re: FreeBSD MIDI (Was: Re: What happened to the "d_maj" member of "struct cdevsw" in CURRENT?) X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2005 18:51:20 -0000 On Sat, 23 Apr 2005 02:42:10 -0400 (EDT), Andre Guibert de Bruet wrote: > > On Tue, 19 Apr 2005, Conrad J. Sabatier wrote: > > > It looks like MIDI is really starting to come together, though. I > > now have a loadable kernel module "midi.ko", with support for cmi > > and emu10k1 cards. I've already seen a report from someone on the > > multimedia list who actually got this to work with his card > > and external MIDI synth. Hopefully, we can get support for more > > cards included soon. :-) > > > > We'll keep the current list informed as to further developments. > > I would love to get my Yamaha synth working with FreeBSD! What state > are these patches in? Is this something that we could expect for > 6.0-rel? Well, I haven't been able to actually run the driver through any tests, yet, as my soundcard is not (yet) one of the supported ones. But it does compile OK, and as I mentioned before, I know of at least one person who reported successful MIDI playback via his external MIDI synth keyboard. I'm hoping Mat will be able to add es137x support soon, so I can actually see how well this thing will work. I'm fairly optimistic at this point; it's just a matter of copying/adapting the patches for other cards into the es137x files. I couldn't tell you for sure which FreeBSD release will be the one to announce the addition of MIDI, but I do think 6.0 could very well possibly be it, with additional backpatching into 5.x-STABLE as well. By the way, what kind of Yamaha synth do you have? Mine is an SO3. I can hardly wait to be able to use it under FreeBSD! -- Conrad J. Sabatier -- "In Unix veritas"