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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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