Re: MIDI & Debian?
On Thu, 15 Aug 1996, Richard G. Roberto wrote:
> further. There is another free sequencer type program for X
> that I found confusing and not generally useful, but someone
> else may. It's called Rosegarden.
>
After doing some more research, I found a nasty memory leak
in jazz :-(. Too bad, I liked the interface! I have gotten
a little used to Rosegarden and, although it lacks features,
it does play reliably. I also found that it maintains
playing speed very well. Other linux X-MIDI software seem
to slow down when you do anything in X! (like move a
window!)
> There's a reference URL at:
>
> http://www.digiserve.com/ar/linux-snd/
>
> This has many links to useful places for Linux sound!
>
> One thing about that HOWTO, though. I have a true MPU-401
> capable card, so according to the HOWTO and the Readme.cards
> in the kernel sources, I shouldn't have any problems
> enabling this _and_ the audiotrix pro. But the mpu-401
> driver complains about a conflict. Also, the 2.0.12 kernel
This still happens, but without the MPU-401 support, I don't
have MIDI capabilities. It looks like the MPU-401 option is
required for MIDI device support with the audiotrix pro.
This is a funky card and I have lots of hoops to jump
through to get it to work corrctly under DOS/WIN too. More
on that later ...
> does not have these sound drivers available as modules! I
As near as I can tell, this stuff gets compiled into the
sound.o module and not the kernel. Anybody know for sure?
> think I'm going to recompile the kernel without the MPU-401
> driver and see what happens. I have a few other things to
As I said, I tried it without the MPU-401 part and no midi.
Strangely enough, I couldn't get the MPU-401 device to
initialize correctly, though. I got the same conflict
message. But then I used the USS/Linux driver demo to test
the board, it worked! So I unloaded it and reloaded
sound.o, and bingo: MPU-401 midi device listed in
/dev/sndstat! Rosegarden seems to be able to use the wave
table blaster periodically as well!
> do first, but I should get to this this weekend. I may have
> other news on MIDI/Sound stuff by then as well. I'll gladly
> share it with the list if it seems useful.
I found the USS/Linux web site that has a handful of tools
on its web pages. I was unable to access these tools so Dev
at USS/Linux emailed them to me! He's a really nice guy
who's interested in free software. He's using a hacked up
slackware distribution for his internal purposes and I
turned him on to Debian. He said he'd consider upgrading,
but he has a lot of stuff to do first. I'll keep on him!
He also said that he would give me the sources to his MIDI
apps so I could debianize them! They currently don't work
with the USS/Lite sound.o module (at least they don't for
me), so I'll have to take a look at getting them to be more
generally useful, but they work pretty well.
They have the timing problem I mentioned above, which needs
to be worked out. They also don't give per track options
for input/output device selection, which I need. I'll stay
on top of this as much as I can, but I'm really behind in so
many things that it may take a while. I'm getting ready to
move half way across the world in three weeks from now!
I think this is an area that needs more attention than I'm
currently capable of giving it, but I'm the one in need, so
I guess I get the job ...
Thanks!
Richard G. Roberto
richr@bear.com
201-739-2886 - whippany, nj
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