From owner-freebsd-multimedia Wed Jul 18 14:11: 8 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from jupiter.linuxengine.net (jupiter.linuxengine.net [209.61.188.254]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0CA137B406 for ; Wed, 18 Jul 2001 14:11:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from john@utzweb.net) Received: from jupiterweb.commercevault.com (jupiterweb.commercevault.com [209.61.179.16] (may be forged)) by jupiter.linuxengine.net (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f6ILEr026357; Wed, 18 Jul 2001 16:14:53 -0500 Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 16:14:53 -0500 (CDT) From: John Utz X-X-Sender: To: Mike Holling Cc: Subject: Re: state of newmidi in 4.3R? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: 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 per some mail from the hardworking cg: you are waiting for either 5.0 or 4.4 if it ships mewmidi is in the tree, as i understand it. On Wed, 18 Jul 2001, Mike Holling wrote: > I'm considering trying to get MIDI enabled on my workstation/music > experimentation machine. It has two soundcards which work fine for DSP > playback and recording: > > av% cat /dev/sndstat > FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm) May 20 2001 20:36:50 > Installed devices: > pcm0: at io 0xe800 irq 11 (1p/1r channels duplex) > pcm1: at io 0x220 irq 5 drq 1 (1p/1r channels) > > However I'm not able to get any basic MIDI functionality working: > > av% playmidi -e somethin.mid > Playmidi 2.4 Copyright (C) 1994-1997 Nathan I. Laredo, AWE32 by Takashi Iwai > This is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. > For details please see the file COPYING. > open /dev/sequencer: Device not configured > > There doesn't seem to be much info about newmidi in the archives or on the > web. I found a page for newmidi patches on the FreeBSD site, but they > seem old (around 4.0 time) and there's no "midi" device in LINT and no > "midistat" in MAKEDEV. I had an external synth hooked up to the AudioPCI > back in 1999, using FreeBSD 3.x and the commercial OSS drivers. Is there > something else that needs to be configured before MIDI is functional? > > - Mike > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message > -- John L. Utz III john@utzweb.net Idiocy is the Impulse Function in the Convolution of Life To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message