Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2003 10:01:24 -0600 From: Peter Schultz <peter@jocose.org> To: David Schultz <das@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MIDI Message-ID: <3E8B0954.3030905@jocose.org> In-Reply-To: <20030331235443.GB32627@HAL9000.homeunix.com> References: <20030331153829.636FE4F2EB@smtp.us2.messagingengine.com> <20030331235443.GB32627@HAL9000.homeunix.com>
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David Schultz wrote: > Thus spake Thanjee Neefam <thanjee@fastmail.fm>: > >>I was very happy when compiling my 5.0 kernel. For the first time "device >>midi" compiled without giving any errors. This abnormal excitement only >>led to misery when I discovered after rebooting that there still was no >>MIDI. >>Is MIDI going to be implemented soon? Who is working on it? Can I help >>them? (I am not a very good programmer, but I can hack pre existing code, >>and I am good at testing). MIDI is the ONLY thing stopping me from >>running FreeBSD exclusively. > > > FYI, the non-free OSS driver supports MIDI: > > http://www.opensound.com/bsd.html Apparently even this is not complete, however: http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=1250661+0+archive/2003/freebsd-current/20030323.freebsd-current One interesting thing to note from that thread, is that Yuriy Tsibizov is into the development of this stuff, but does not have all the equipment needed to conduct testing. I don't know what hardware you have, but this is what he's been working on: http://chibis.persons.gfk.ru/audigy/ Pete...
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