From owner-freebsd-multimedia Sun Feb 3 7:17:43 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from web10906.mail.yahoo.com (web10906.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.131.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CA29137B400 for ; Sun, 3 Feb 2002 07:17:39 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <20020203151739.79536.qmail@web10906.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [63.209.4.196] by web10906.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sun, 03 Feb 2002 07:17:39 PST Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2002 07:17:39 -0800 (PST) From: nil Subject: Re: Playmidi & SBLive To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Cc: dinjo@touchtunes.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi, I found your posting in a google search... I've heard many similar complaints about playmidi, and perhaps after 6 years of inaction on my part, it's time to revisit the code to work around it or else convince the sound driver maintainers that it really wasn't a good idea to eliminate the /dev/sequencer api for new drivers. Either that or much new kernel code must be written to support /dev/sequencer for all the new hardware out there. An old SB16 will work just fine with my external midi hardware, but a new SB Live will not. I have two choices... one is to write a user-space library that will emulate the /dev/sequencer interface and keep the rest of playmidi as is... the other is to get off my butt and release a 3.0 version of playmidi. 2.5 is almost 6 years old now. -- Nathan Laredo laredo at gnu dot org and playmidi at nathanlaredo dot com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Great stuff seeking new owners in Yahoo! Auctions! http://auctions.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message