From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 18 16:47:17 2003 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 8AE2537B401 for ; Sun, 18 May 2003 16:47:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from 255-193.ip.ll.net (234-209.ip.ll.net [209.131.234.209]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91B2643F3F for ; Sun, 18 May 2003 16:47:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jimd@siu.edu) Received: from freebsd2.localnet10 (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freebsd2.localnet10 (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h4IIOSMP000674; Sun, 18 May 2003 18:24:28 GMT (envelope-from jimd@siu.edu) Received: from localhost (jimd@localhost)h4IIOSGG000671; Sun, 18 May 2003 18:24:28 GMT X-Authentication-Warning: freebsd2.localnet10: jimd owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 18 May 2003 18:24:28 +0000 (CDT) From: jimd@siu.edu X-X-Sender: jimd@freebsd2.localnet10 To: Mathew Kanner In-Reply-To: <20030518221722.GB60782@cnd.mcgill.ca> Message-ID: <20030518182143.O570@freebsd2.localnet10> References: <20030515061748.O1048@freebsd2.localnet10> <20030518221722.GB60782@cnd.mcgill.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org cc: jimd@siu.edu Subject: Re: MIDI on SB Live! ? 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: Sun, 18 May 2003 23:47:17 -0000 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)