missing /dev/midi with CMI8738

[Mathew Kanner]

On Oct 27, T.M. Sommers wrote:
> T.M. Sommers wrote:
> >Mathew Kanner wrote:
> >
> >>On Oct 13, John-Mark Gurney wrote:
> >>
> >>>T.M. Sommers wrote this message on Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 06:13 -0400:
> >>>
> >>>>-> cat /boot/loader.conf
> >>>>snd_pcm_load="YES"              # Digital sound subsystem
> >>>>snd_cmi_load="YES"              # cmi
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>This is for digital sound only, not for midi.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>Another device is using irq 9, but that shouldn't be a problem, 
> >>>>should it?
> >>>>
> >>>>ohci0: <AcerLabs M5237 (Aladdin-V) USB controller> mem 
> >>>>0xeb800000-0xeb800fff irq 9 at device 2.0 on pci0
> >>>>
> >>>>Does anyone have any ideas about how to get midi working?  Thanks.
> >>>
> >>>It looks like midi isn't a loadable module, but you can try to recomile
> >>>your kernel with:
> >>>device    seq
> >>>device    midi
> >>>
> >>>and that should give you the necessary devices to do midi.  I haven't
> >>>used this, so I'm not sure it'll work, but give it a try.  Hope it helps
> >>>you!
> >>
> >>    The stock midi drivers has nothing for cmi.  I've posted links
> >>to my driver which does support cmi.
> >
> >
> >Thanks.  I did not find it myself because I was searching for CMI8738, 
> >not cmi.
> >
> >Unfortunately, when I try to load it, it fails:
> >
> >-> kldload snd_cmi
> >kldload: can't load snd_cmi: File exists
> >
> >which seems odd.  kldload(2) is returning -1.
> >
> >kldunload does not work, either:
> >
> >-> kldunload snd_cmi
> >kldunload: can't find file snd_cmi: No such file or directory
> 
> Never mind.  The sound device was statically built into the kernel; 
> when I changed that, I was able to load the modified snd_cmi, and 
> /dev/midi0.0 exists.
> 
> However, I still have a problem.  The midiplay program runs, and 
> reports no errors, but no sound comes out of the speakers.

	Who's speakers?  You have a midi keyboard (or other midi
processing unit) right?

	--Mat
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