Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 19:44:33 +0200 From: Rene Ladan <r.c.ladan@student.tue.nl> To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /dev/midi and /dev/sequencer Message-ID: <20050823174433.GA42268@82-168-75-155-bbxl.xdsl.tiscali.nl> In-Reply-To: <20050823164736.GB67783@neptune.atopia.net> References: <200508231659.39672.ben@spooty.net> <20050823164736.GB67783@neptune.atopia.net>
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On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 12:47:36PM -0400, Dan Ponte wrote: > On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 04:59:39PM +0100, Ben Paley <ben@spooty.net> was witnessed plotting the following conspiracy: > > Hello, > > > > I'm running 5.4-STABLE, cvsupped and everything rebuilt Mon Aug 22. > > > > Does anyone know what's happening with MIDI? I've got no /dev/midi > > or /dev/sequencer and don't know if it's even possible to turn them on in the > > kernel at the moment. > > > > I've also managed to compile and run Rosegarden-4 - it claims to work with > > arts instead of ALSA but I'm not having any luck starting it with sequencer > > or midi... any ideas? > > > > Thanks, > > Ben > As of now, FreeBSD has no support for MIDI. We once had it, but not > anymore. > -Dan > -- > Dan Ponte > http://www.theamigan.net/ > When a fly lands on the ceiling, does it do a half roll or a half > loop? You can try Eric A. Welsh's set of Gravis Ultrasound MIDI patches (/usr/ports/audio/eawpats) which pulls in Timidity++. This way you have at least software MIDI playback. The patchset sounds quite good (better than the native MIDI of my sound card). Regards, Rene -- GPG fingerprint = 5FFA 3959 3377 C697 8428 24D0 BF3E F4A9 AE33 5DCC "It won't fit on the line." -- me, 2001
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