[john@utzweb.net: Holy Crap! It WORKS!!!!! Re: MIDI test patch]

[Conrad J. Sabatier]

On Wed, 2004-11-24 at 08:48 -0800, John L.Utz III wrote:
> You where exactly the person i was thinking of when i suggested that he
> forward it to the list....

Thanks.  I have several days off here, and hope to be able to get
something accomplished re: MIDI under amd64.  I've dabbled with Mat's
patches before, but ran into some build errors.  Never really took the
time to try and resolve anything.  Hopefully, I'll have better luck this
time.  :-)

> At Wed, 24 Nov 2004 06:18:07 -0600,
> Conrad J. Sabatier wrote:
> > 
> > On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 11:27:47 -0500, Mathew Kanner <mat at cnd.mcgill.ca>
> > wrote:
> > 
> > > Sure is nice to hear good news.
> > > ps, it's Mathew with one 'T'.
> > > 
> > 
> > That's very exciting news!  I'm going to have to get serious about
> > spending some time with this on amd64!
> > 
> > > ----- Forwarded message from "John L.Utz III" <john at utzweb.net> -----
> > > 
> > > Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 22:09:15 -0800
> > > From: "John L.Utz III" <john at utzweb.net>
> > > To: Mathew Kanner <mat at cnd.mcgill.ca>
> > > Cc: freebsd-multimedia at freebsd.org
> > > Subject: Holy Crap! It WORKS!!!!! Re: MIDI test patch
> > > In-Reply-To: <20041115151152.GC24780 at cnd.mcgill.ca>
> > > 
> > > Hi Matt;
> > > 
> > > You might want to forward this good news to the list, i cant because
> > > my isp's wholesailer cant seem to figure out how to fix/fake up my
> > > RCPT-TO header so my mail to the list get's rejected.
> > > 
> > > reason this didnt work on my cmi chip was because i hadnt recompiled
> > > cmi.c :-(
> > > 
> > > duh!
> > > 
> > > bash-2.05b$ cat /dev/midistat
> > > FreeBSD Midi Driver (midi2)
> > > Installed devices:
> > >  [0/0:provider mpu401]descr mpu401
> > > 
> > > 
> > > wooooohooooo!!!!!! i can rock my world now.....
> > > 
> > > my keyboard scared the crap out of my wife and myself when i ran
> > > Rush-2112_Overture.mid thru playmidi because the volume on the
> > > keyboard was turned up from when i was using the rythm section to
> > > provide a beat whilst i played guitar....i hadnt expected this to work
> > > :-)
> > > 
> > > great job! great great great job!
> > > 
> > > At Mon, 15 Nov 2004 10:11:52 -0500,
> > > Mathew Kanner wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > On Nov 12, John L.Utz III wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > Hi John,
> > > > 
> > > > > did you possibly mean:
> > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > >  	kldload snd_emu10k1
> > > > >  	kldload snd_cmi
> > > > 
> > > > 	Yes, it was late when I wrote that.
> > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > and is this supposed to be an either or? because it seems to me
> > > > > that i would only want to load snd_cmi given that i have a cmi
> > > > > soundchip.
> > > > 
> > > > 	Yes again!
> > > > > 
> > > > > or did you embed all the midi secret sauce in the snd_emu10k1 and
> > > > > snd_cmi just reaches in and grabs it somehow?
> > > > 
> > > > 	The secret is salt and most of it is in the MPU401 driver
> > > > which is shared for both drivers.  
> > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > if you have any suggestions for debugging my failure to get a midi
> > > > > device, please let me know. i am going to boot verbose next and
> > > > > see what i get for debugging info
> > > > 
> > > > 	I guess I would start with the obvious, like what kind of
> > > > set-up do you have: Internal/external hardware, connected with what
> > > > kind of cables, does it work in Linux or Windows.
> > > > 
> > > > 	Other than bit-rot in the last couple of months cmi should
> > > > work since it's one of two cards I have with MIDI support.
> > > > 
> > > > 	I just got up-to date with the kernel yesterday so I'll see if
> > > > I can get it to work for me.
> > > > 
> > > > 	--Mat
> > > 
> > > ----- End forwarded message -----

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