On Tue, 08 May 2007 07:58:20 -0500
"r10 kindsofpeople" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I'm having what appears to be overflow problems within the
> snd-serial-u16550 driver.
> 
> I'm using 1.0.14rc1.
> 
> When calling "amidi -p hw:0,0,0 -s FILE.SYX" where hw:0,0,0 is the 
> snd-serial-u16550 port,  the data coming from the serial port appears
> to be a small fraction (900 bytes) of the total file size (13000
> bytes).
> 
> If I repeat the experiment, but send to a USB MIDI port, all is well.
> If I send the data to the serial port using calls to 
> snd_seq_event_output_direct(), and I add a 1 second pause between
> every sysex message, all is well (aside from it taking too long).
> I'm logging data directly at the PC serial port using another PC, so
> I've eliminated the possibility that the serial-to-MIDI hardware is
> losing the data.
> 
> My code is using blocking mode, and besides, amidi behaves the same
> way as my code.
> 
> I'm hesitant to blame the driver code (especially given that last
> time I did this, it was an interrupt configuraiton problem), but I
> could use some help figuring out where to look next.  Please?
> 
> Are there calls I can use to ensure that the previous message has
> gone out before writing the next one?  Given the amount of data I'm
> sending, should I be using snd_seq_event_output and scheduling the
> events on the queue?
> 
> John
> 
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I think you're more likely to get a response to this on the alsa-devel
mailing list.  As I don't subscribe to that list, perhaps you have
already sent this there.  In that case, ignore.  :-)

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