Hello, I'm running 5.4-STABLE, cvsupped and everything rebuilt Mon Aug 22. Does anyone know what's happening with MIDI? I've got no /dev/midi or /dev/sequencer and don't know if it's even possible to turn them on in the kernel at the moment. I've also managed to compile and run Rosegarden-4 - it claims to work with arts instead of ALSA but I'm not having any luck starting it with sequencer or midi... any ideas? Thanks, Ben
On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 04:59:39PM +0100, Ben Paley <ben@spooty.net> was witnessed plotting the following conspiracy:> Hello, > > I'm running 5.4-STABLE, cvsupped and everything rebuilt Mon Aug 22. > > Does anyone know what's happening with MIDI? I've got no /dev/midi > or /dev/sequencer and don't know if it's even possible to turn them on in the > kernel at the moment. > > I've also managed to compile and run Rosegarden-4 - it claims to work with > arts instead of ALSA but I'm not having any luck starting it with sequencer > or midi... any ideas? > > Thanks, > BenAs of now, FreeBSD has no support for MIDI. We once had it, but not anymore. -Dan -- Dan Ponte http://www.theamigan.net/ When a fly lands on the ceiling, does it do a half roll or a half loop?
On 8/24/05, Ben Paley <ben@spooty.net> wrote:> Hello, > > I'm running 5.4-STABLE, cvsupped and everything rebuilt Mon Aug 22. > > Does anyone know what's happening with MIDI? I've got no /dev/midi > or /dev/sequencer and don't know if it's even possible to turn them on in the > kernel at the moment. > > I've also managed to compile and run Rosegarden-4 - it claims to work with > arts instead of ALSA but I'm not having any luck starting it with sequencer > or midi... any ideas? > > Thanks, > BenThere is slow work being done by one developer to reestablish midi. A set of patches was posted here for 5.4, and they aparently worked. I couldn't get them to compile on CURRENT, though. I was not able to locate a site on it, and the patch was posted to this list on Apr 26 by conrads(a)cox.net . He may be able to find you a later patch set from "Mat".
On Wednesday 24 August 2005 12:27, Rene Ladan wrote:> You can try Eric A. Welsh's set of Gravis Ultrasound MIDI patches > (/usr/ports/audio/eawpats) which pulls in Timidity++. ?This way you have > at least software MIDI playback. ?The patchset sounds quite good (better > than the native MIDI of my sound card).That might do it! I'll check it out, thanks. Ben