On Tue, Jul 31, 2018 at 05:51:06PM +0100, Peter Kay wrote: > On 31 July 2018 at 14:22, Christian Weisgerber <na...@mips.inka.de> wrote: > > On 2018-07-31, Janne Johansson <icepic...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >>> I see autri(4) is disabled by default in an amd64 kernel, probably > >>> others too, and has been for a very long time. > >> > >> Seems like it came over with the initial amd64 port from i386, and noone > >> tested it on amd64, so it never got enabled but remained commented out. > > > > It worked on sparc64, where it is enabled by default, back when I > > still had a Blade 100. > > I can confirm it does work fine! Checked some Chrome and mplayer, no > worries with audio. Not sure about MIDI, nothing comes out of the > sound card but not too fussed about that. >
thanks for the confirmation. the midi(4) device is a simple serial port on the card used to connect midi gears (synthesizers, keyboards alike). So no sound is expected to come from the sound card when midi is used.
