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

[Conrad J. Sabatier]

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
> > -- 
> > 	I don't even know what street Canada is on.
> > 			- Al Capone
> > 
> 
> ----- End forwarded message -----
> 
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