At Thu, 20 Jun 2002 00:59:18 -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: > > Takashi Iwai wrote: > > > > At Thu, 13 Jun 2002 02:04:29 -0700, > > Erik Steffl wrote: > > > > > > web search finally revelaed that front panel midi in does not work - > > > joystick port works though (fortunately I happened to have a midi <-> > > > joystick cable). I tested it and it works but: > > > > oh, my, that's possible. apparently only one midi device is defined > > in the driver on sb live, while audigy has two different ioports for > > the rear and front midi connectors. > > it's even worse: the game port midi in (on the back, the one that > works) works only with the keyboard that the cable came with (one end > midi, other end joystick connector). The other midi controller (drum > machine) doesn't work with this cable (both under linux and under > windows, it works fine with normal midi cable that goes into front panel > midi in (under windows)). > > is there anything special about the game port midi in? I thought it's > the same midi in as regular midi. is there any chance having the drum > machine work with this midi in port?
i also have no idea.. > or is there any chance front panel midi in being supported? is it a > matter of porting it from audugy driver or is it comepletely different? i guess they are different. at least on audigy both two midi ports are using different i/o ports. they can be never mixed. the fact that you can access the device even partly means that both ports are mixed up on the hardware on the same i/o port. or, possibly, there is a port assigned only for in or out on the front panel - just a guess... > > > when I turn off midi controller (keyboard) there is number of random > > > midi event (or at least it sounds like random sounds), the keyboard > > > doesn't work anymore, I have to reboot (at least I didn't know what else > > > to do). when I used the same keytboard with sb awe 64 (connected to > > > joystick port) I could turn off keyboard without any problems (and turn > > > it back and it continued to work). any ideas what's going on? at least > > > how to reset it back so that it works aghain (without reboot) > > > > how did you use the midi? > > if it's through sequencer and the port is connected, then try to > > disconnect once, and reconnect again. this will invoke mpu401 uart > > reset. > > I did aconnect -x and reconnected again, that worked. annoying but > tolerable... well, at least something helped you a bit :) > ... > > unfortunately we have no idea. > > i'll take a look at oss emu10k1 driver whether it has something > > special about it (although i don't expect it). > > I guess this partially answers my question, any more info on this? Is > the problem missing docs? afaik, no. i've never seen/heard it. Takashi ------------------------------------------------------- Sponsored by: ThinkGeek at http://www.ThinkGeek.com/ _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
