Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 16:14:53 -0500 (CDT) From: John Utz <john@utzweb.net> To: Mike Holling <myke@ees.com> Cc: <freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: state of newmidi in 4.3R? Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0107181612400.19418-100000@jupiter.linuxengine.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0107181420420.345-100000@av.fks.lan>
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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: <AudioPCI ES1370> at io 0xe800 irq 11 (1p/1r channels duplex) > pcm1: <SB16 DSP 4.02 (ViBRA16X)> 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
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