MIDI anytime soon? Patches available anywhere?
Yuriy Tsibizov
Yuriy.Tsibizov at gfk.ru
Mon Jul 12 04:23:39 PDT 2004
> >>> Still eagerly awaiting the new MIDI stuff here. Is it ready to be
> >>> committed, but just being held up due to Mat's personal business?
> >>>
> >>> I've tried unsuccessfully to locate the patches. If anyone
> >>> knows where they can be found, I'd certainly appreciate it.
> > Yuriy.Tsibizov>
> > http://docs.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20030612181156.GH87709, and you
> > should make some changes to build it on -CURRENT.
> > Yuriy.Tsibizov> If you use emu10k2-based card (Audigy), you can also
> > try emu10kx driver (http://chibis.persons.gfk.ru/audigy/), that has
> > support for midi2 module from Mathew Kanner. SBLive! and CMI are
> > supported by drivers in
> http://www.cnd.mcgill.ca/~mat/midi2-jun1303.tgz.
> >
> >
> http://people.FreeBSD.org/~tanimura/patches/evennewermidi-10jul2004.d
> > iff.bz2
> >
> > is Mathew's patch released in the autumn last year, synced up to
> > -current as of the last Saturday. Be warned that this patch renames
> > the sound drivers, as annonced by me a few hours ago.
>
> So would the latter be the better set to try? Are they
> essentially the
> same, only one is more "merge-ready"?
Yes, midi2 is an old version of evennewmidi.
emu10kx will not get into kernel in near future. Patch from Seigo Tanimura should be in the tree soon.
>
> So, which would be my best choice in soundcard for working
> with the new
> MIDI, Audigy or SBLive!? Currently, I have neither one, but not a
> problem; I'm sure I could afford to replace my card. :-)
SBLive!, if you can find it. But you should get a Creative one, not an OEM from Dell.
Yuriy.
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