Date: Sun, 18 May 2003 18:24:28 +0000 (CDT) From: jimd@siu.edu To: Mathew Kanner <mat@cnd.mcgill.ca> Cc: jimd@siu.edu Subject: Re: MIDI on SB Live! ? Message-ID: <20030518182143.O570@freebsd2.localnet10> In-Reply-To: <20030518221722.GB60782@cnd.mcgill.ca> References: <20030515061748.O1048@freebsd2.localnet10> <20030518221722.GB60782@cnd.mcgill.ca>
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I have seen mention in one or more FBSD mailing lists/archives that some think that attempting to port ALSA to FBSD would be a bad choice. I will leave it to "them" to chime in and let you know more about the specifics. On Sun, 18 May 2003, Mathew Kanner wrote: > What's slowing me down is that *no-one* remembers how midi is > even supposed to work and I haven't really heard of other people with > external midi hardware using fbsd. That makes it a "priority: fun" > project. > > Newer applications seems to be written with alsa in mind. It > pains me that people are ignoring a perfectly good standard (oss on > /dev/music) but considering how hard it is to decipher some times, I > don't blame them. From my limited experience Alsa apps (I've looked > at on-line docs but haven't actually used it) link to a library and > don't directly deal with hardware. We could create a stub library or > campaign to bring back the older, more compatible ways. (I hear the > discordian society will back us)
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