Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:51:12 -0500 From: "Conrad J. Sabatier" <conrads@cox.net> To: Andre Guibert de Bruet <andy@siliconlandmark.com> Cc: Mathew Kanner <mat@cnd.mcgill.ca> Subject: Re: FreeBSD MIDI (Was: Re: What happened to the "d_maj" member of "struct cdevsw" in CURRENT?) Message-ID: <20050423135112.63c74617@dolphin.local.net> In-Reply-To: <20050423023605.A68772@lexi.siliconlandmark.com> References: <20050418232455.2d530890@dolphin.local.net> <5265.1113888748@critter.freebsd.dk> <20050419130048.6e545269@dolphin.local.net> <20050423023605.A68772@lexi.siliconlandmark.com>
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On Sat, 23 Apr 2005 02:42:10 -0400 (EDT), Andre Guibert de Bruet <andy@siliconlandmark.com> wrote: > > On Tue, 19 Apr 2005, Conrad J. Sabatier wrote: > > > It looks like MIDI is really starting to come together, though. I > > now have a loadable kernel module "midi.ko", with support for cmi > > and emu10k1 cards. I've already seen a report from someone on the > > multimedia list who actually got this to work with his card > > and external MIDI synth. Hopefully, we can get support for more > > cards included soon. :-) > > > > We'll keep the current list informed as to further developments. > > I would love to get my Yamaha synth working with FreeBSD! What state > are these patches in? Is this something that we could expect for > 6.0-rel? Well, I haven't been able to actually run the driver through any tests, yet, as my soundcard is not (yet) one of the supported ones. But it does compile OK, and as I mentioned before, I know of at least one person who reported successful MIDI playback via his external MIDI synth keyboard. I'm hoping Mat will be able to add es137x support soon, so I can actually see how well this thing will work. I'm fairly optimistic at this point; it's just a matter of copying/adapting the patches for other cards into the es137x files. I couldn't tell you for sure which FreeBSD release will be the one to announce the addition of MIDI, but I do think 6.0 could very well possibly be it, with additional backpatching into 5.x-STABLE as well. By the way, what kind of Yamaha synth do you have? Mine is an SO3. I can hardly wait to be able to use it under FreeBSD! -- Conrad J. Sabatier <conrads@cox.net> -- "In Unix veritas"
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