Hi Josh, You might want to check out Midiman's Portman PC/S, since there are now drivers at:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/portmanlinux/ I have one of these and tried to get it working about 1 year ago with Linux _without_ success. But I have yet to try it with Oliv's driver. He says it's working fine now, so I plan to try again at some point... The Portman's a pretty inexpensive option. On the other hand, it seems the Mediator has been working with Linux for quite a while, so that might be a safer bet. Good luck, and let me know if you get something working. William Josh Green wrote: > > I've been seeing talk of ALSA support for serial interfaces lately, and > have found myself searching for it as well. I have a laptop that I would > like to add MIDI support to, I only need 1 input (output not really > necessary, just want to connect a keyboard). I searched through the > archives (with google of course, as geocrawler is severely broken) and > found some posts on using the Mediator MS-124W. I found the driver in > the ALSA source and noticed that only the MS-124W and 124T are supported > currently. Since I don't need anything fancy, the MS-124W is a bit > overkill and a lot more pricey as well ($100 more than the MS-101). > Someone documented in the driver that they had documentation on the > other models but no units to test with. If I bought the MS-101, would it > be possible to get this information, and how different is it than the > MS-124W (to gauge how hard a driver implementation would be). > > An alternative to this would be to use a USB MIDI interface, but AFAIK > ALSA doesn't support this yet, which is useless to me. Any ideas of when > this will happen and how much work would be involved. > > Thanks. Please CC as I'm not on the list anymore (going traveling soon). > > P.S. I BCC'd the driver author (determined from source), I'll understand > if he is too busy to respond :) > > -- > Josh Green > Smurf Sound Font Editor (http://smurf.sourceforge.net) > > _______________________________________________ > Alsa-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-devel _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-devel
