RE: MIDI anytime soon? Patches available anywhere?

From: Yuriy Tsibizov <Yuriy.Tsibizov_at_gfk.ru>
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 15:23:23 +0400
> >>> 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.
Received on Mon Jul 12 2004 - 09:23:39 UTC

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