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Date:      Sat, 12 Jun 1999 21:24:19 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Chuck Robey <chuckr@picnic.mat.net>
To:        The Utz Family <utz@serv.net>
Cc:        FreeBSD-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: midi questions
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9906122122430.567-100000@picnic.mat.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.02.9906112341430.18732-100000@itchy.serv.net>

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On Fri, 11 Jun 1999, The Utz Family wrote:

> Ok, so i am a little confused.
> 
> my understanding is that Mr Tanimura's new midi driver only works with
> midi devices that you access via the serial port, so you have to have one
> of the little sound dealies that they sell for laptops. i dont beleive
> that it supports onboard midi devices.... did i miss something by not
> visiting the webpage lately? or did i have it wrong to begin with?

According to the web page, and the man pages, it knew about the MPU-401
chip, and the correct addresses, but I guess it's still a little too
new.  I'm reading code on it, but I have to admit it's not high on my
priority list (I have another project) so amybe later ...

> 
> On Fri, 11 Jun 1999, Chuck Robey wrote:
> 
> > I've been trying to get Seigo Tanimura's new midi driver to work ... and
> > not doing too well.  It's probably because I haven't paid all that much
> > attention to sound, so I don't know it as well as I should.  I want to
> > ask a few questions.  If you know any of the answers, I'd appreciate
> > some info.
> > 
> > I have an Intel DK440LX motherboard (because of the dual processors).
> > It has a pretty large array of on-board peripherals, and the sound is
> > one of them, based upon (according to the pdf docs) Crystal CS4236B,
> > which has an OPL-3 compatible FM synthesizer.
> > 
> > The new midi driver actually has the ability to drive a midi connection,
> > so I have to know about the midi port, which I've never needed before.
> > Add that to PNP, that's causing my problems in getting it all going.
> > 
> > I have had sound working great, via PNP & kernel.conf, so I am
> > reasonably familiar with pnp(4) and kget(8), and the boot files.  I've
> > had my sound rearranging itself via kernel.conf successfully.
> > 
> > Does the midi port need it's own IRQ?  I had the sound card listed as
> > running  on IRQ 15, ioaddr 0x534 for WSS.  The soundblaster
> > compatibility at ioaddr 0x220; I didn't have a line for the FM
> > sythesizer.  Here's the line I had:
> > 
> > pnp 1 0 os enable port0 0x534 port2 0x220 irq0 15 drq0 1 drq1 0
> > 
> > OK, to add the FM synthesizer, I added a port 1 clause, which changed
> > the line to:
> > 
> > pnp 1 0 os enable port0 0x534 port 1 0x388 port2 0x220 irq0 15 drq0 1 drq1 0
> > 
> > pnpinfo seemed to find this ok, and set it up.  The midi(4) man page
> > that came with Seigo's driver talks about the midi uart --- does it
> > share that same irq (the one I had set to 15) or does it need it's own?
> > I had set up a second kernel.conf line:
> > 
> > pnp 1 3 os enable port0 0x330 irq 15
> > 
> > which I thought would handle midi.  It kept on giving me the error line
> > 
> > /kernel: open: unit 1 not configured, perhaps you want unit 2 ?
> > 
> > I tried setting that line 2 of kernel.conf so it would use irq 11 (an
> > irq of it's own).  It still doesn't work.  The probe message doesn't
> > tell a lot:
> > 
> > uartsio0: probing at port 0x330.
> > opl0: probing at port 0x330.
> > 
> > Is that 0x330 address right, for a uart?  I thought that was the address
> > to right to the midi device ... I didn't realize that's a uart.
> > 
> > Here's the end of my pnpinfo listing, maybe it will be of help:
> > 
> > Logical device #0
> > IO:  0x0534 0x0388 0x0220 0x0000 0x0000 0x0000 0x0000 0x0000
> > IRQ 15 0
> > DMA 1 0
> > IO range check 0x00 activate 0x01
> > 
> > Logical device #1
> > IO:  0x0200 0x0000 0x0000 0x0000 0x0000 0x0000 0x0000 0x0000
> > IRQ 0 0
> > DMA 4 4
> > IO range check 0x00 activate 0x01
> > 
> > Logical device #2
> > IO:  0x0120 0x0000 0x0000 0x0000 0x0000 0x0000 0x0000 0x0000
> > IRQ 0 0
> > DMA 4 4
> > IO range check 0x00 activate 0x01
> > 
> > Logical device #3
> > IO:  0x0330 0x0000 0x0000 0x0000 0x0000 0x0000 0x0000 0x0000
> > IRQ 0 0
> > DMA 4 4
> > IO range check 0x00 activate 0x01
> > 
> > 
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Chuck Robey                 | Interests include any kind of voice or data 
chuckr@picnic.mat.net       | communications topic, C programming, and Unix.
213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1  |
Greenbelt, MD 20770         | I run picnic and jaunt, both FreeBSD-current.
(301) 220-2114              | 
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