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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!EU.net!sun4nl!inter.NL.net!E.R.Cramer From: E.R.Cramer@inter.NL.net (Peter Dekkers) Subject: Re: MIDI Drivers Message-ID: <E.R.Cramer.6.0004E868@inter.NL.net> Lines: 35 Sender: news@inter.NL.net (News at news) Organization: NLnet X-Newsreader: Trumpet for Windows [Version 1.0 Rev B final beta #1] References: <D4G9JG.Ev7@agora.rdrop.com> Date: Sat, 25 Feb 1995 12:32:23 GMT In article <D4G9JG.Ev7@agora.rdrop.com> chrisb@agora.rdrop.com (Chris Bradley) writes: >From: chrisb@agora.rdrop.com (Chris Bradley) >Subject: MIDI Drivers >Date: Thu, 23 Feb 1995 11:06:51 GMT >Is there/are there MIDI support drivers built in to FreeBSD? MPU-401 Specific >would >be fine. Anyone know of any? I'm interested in firing up a FreeBSD system, >getting X >windows to run, and writing a Sequencer if someone already hasn't. Thanks! >-->Neil >root@beacon.dev.com When I downloaded the kernsrc for FreeBSD 2.0 it had already drivers for the mpu-401, so I didn't have to download any additional drivers. They are from VoxWare and in the directory /sys/i386/isa/sound. All you have to do is to add device <snd5> to your kernel configuration and rebuild your kernel. (see LINT configuration file for example). After this you can test your midi-interface like this : type : cat </dev/sequencer >file.name <RETURN> play something on your keyboard. type : ^C (<== this is ofcourse to stop cat) type : cat <file.name >/dev/sequencer <RETURN> Now you should hear a playback of what you just played :) Peter Dekkers, Rotterdam, Holland.