Hi,
I'm a hobbyist musician, and I recently bought this cheap keyboard (with
MIDI) and a USB-MIDI adapter. I wanted to use some MS-Windoze software, but
I had zero success to get that USB-MIDI adapter recognized by my notebook's
WinXP Home (-current). Some googling told me several people had the same
problem with this device. Ok, crap, return to store.
Before returning it, and just for kicks, I decided to see what OpenBSD
4.0-stable thinks of this device. In a nutshell: it just works.
The device is branded "Swissonic MIDI-USB 1x1". Here's a dmesg snippage
(full dmesg below):
midi0 at pcppi0: <PC speaker>
umidi0 at uhub2 port 2 configuration 1 interface 0
umidi0: ? product 0x0011, rev 1.10/0.01, addr 2
umidi0: (genuine USB-MIDI)
umidi0: out=1, in=1
midi1 at umidi0: <USB MIDI I/F>
"apropos midi" told me about midiplay(1) in the core OS. midiplay seems
to recognize the USB device:
$ midiplay -l
0: PC speaker
1: USB MIDI I/F
Looks promising. I plugged the (WinXP-notwork) MIDI-jacks into the
keyboard, and sure enough, it would play:
$ midiplay -d 1 Another_One_Bites_the_Dust.mid
^C
Wow, that rocks :) It "just works"(tm) in OpenBSD. And the documentation
is correct and to the point. My hat is off to you..
ciao,
chakl
full dmesg: [Toshiba Satellite A50 notebook]
OpenBSD 4.0 (GENERIC) #0: Thu Oct 19 14:43:36 CEST 2006
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/share/src40/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC
cpu0: Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.60GHz ("GenuineIntel" 686-class) 1.60
GHz
cpu0:
FPU,V86,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,CFLUSH,DS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,TM,SBF,EST,TM2
cpu0: Enhanced SpeedStep 1600 MHz (1340 mV): speeds: 1600, 1400, 1200, 1000,
800, 600 MHz
real mem = 518877184 (506716K)
avail mem = 465342464 (454436K)
using 4256 buffers containing 26046464 bytes (25436K) of memory
mainbus0 (root)
bios0 at mainbus0: AT/286+(63) BIOS, date 04/28/04, BIOS32 rev. 0 @ 0xfc123,
SMBIOS rev. 2.3 @ 0xec000 (39 entries)
bios0: TOSHIBA Satellite A50
apm0 at bios0: Power Management spec V1.2
apm0: battery life expectancy 100%
apm0: AC on, battery charge high, estimated 2:05 hours
apm0: flags 20102 dobusy 0 doidle 1
pcibios0 at bios0: rev 2.1 @ 0xf0000/0x10000
pcibios0: PCI IRQ Routing Table rev 1.0 @ 0xf01b0/144 (7 entries)
pcibios0: PCI Interrupt Router at 000:31:0 ("Intel 82371FB ISA" rev 0x00)
pcibios0: PCI bus #3 is the last bus
bios0: ROM list: 0xc0000/0x10000 0xe0000/0x10000!
cpu0 at mainbus0
pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 1 (no bios)
pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0 "Intel 82852GM Hub-PCI" rev 0x02
"Intel 82852GM Memory" rev 0x02 at pci0 dev 0 function 1 not configured
"Intel 82852GM Configuration" rev 0x02 at pci0 dev 0 function 3 not configured
vga1 at pci0 dev 2 function 0 "Intel 82852GM AGP" rev 0x02: aperture at
0xd8000000, size 0x8000000
wsdisplay0 at vga1 mux 1: console (80x25, vt100 emulation)
wsdisplay0: screen 1-5 added (80x25, vt100 emulation)
"Intel 82852GM AGP" rev 0x02 at pci0 dev 2 function 1 not configured
uhci0 at pci0 dev 29 function 0 "Intel 82801DB USB" rev 0x03: irq 10
usb0 at uhci0: USB revision 1.0
uhub0 at usb0
uhub0: Intel UHCI root hub, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
uhci1 at pci0 dev 29 function 1 "Intel 82801DB USB" rev 0x03: irq 11
usb1 at uhci1: USB revision 1.0
uhub1 at usb1
uhub1: Intel UHCI root hub, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub1: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
uhci2 at pci0 dev 29 function 2 "Intel 82801DB USB" rev 0x03: irq 11
usb2 at uhci2: USB revision 1.0
uhub2 at usb2
uhub2: Intel UHCI root hub, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub2: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
ehci0 at pci0 dev 29 function 7 "Intel 82801DB USB" rev 0x03: irq 11
usb3 at ehci0: USB revision 2.0
uhub3 at usb3
uhub3: Intel EHCI root hub, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub3: 6 ports with 6 removable, self powered
ppb0 at pci0 dev 30 function 0 "Intel 82801BAM Hub-to-PCI" rev 0x83
pci1 at ppb0 bus 1
iwi0 at pci1 dev 5 function 0 "Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG" rev 0x05: irq 11,
address 00:0e:35:6b:2b:7b
"TI TSB43AB21 FireWire" rev 0x00 at pci1 dev 7 function 0 not configured
fxp0 at pci1 dev 8 function 0 "Intel PRO/100 VE" rev 0x83, i82562: irq 11,
address 00:0e:7b:e8:0b:1c
inphy0 at fxp0 phy 1: i82562ET 10/100 PHY, rev. 0
cbb0 at pci1 dev 11 function 0 "Toshiba ToPIC100 CardBus" rev 0x33: irq 11
cardslot0 at cbb0 slot 0 flags 0
cardbus0 at cardslot0: bus 3 device 0 cacheline 0x0, lattimer 0x0
pcmcia0 at cardslot0
ichpcib0 at pci0 dev 31 function 0 "Intel 82801DBM LPC" rev 0x03
pciide0 at pci0 dev 31 function 1 "Intel 82801DBM IDE" rev 0x03: DMA, channel 0
configured to compatibility, channel 1 configured to compatibility
wd0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0: <FUJITSU MHT2060AT>
wd0: 16-sector PIO, LBA, 57231MB, 117210240 sectors
wd0(pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 5
atapiscsi0 at pciide0 channel 1 drive 0
scsibus0 at atapiscsi0: 2 targets
cd0 at scsibus0 targ 0 lun 0: <MATSHITA, DVD-RAM UJ-820S, 1.00> SCSI0 5/cdrom
removable
cd0(pciide0:1:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 2
auich0 at pci0 dev 31 function 5 "Intel 82801DB AC97" rev 0x03: irq 11, ICH4
AC97
ac97: codec id 0x83847650 (SigmaTel STAC9750/51)
ac97: codec features headphone, 20 bit DAC, 20 bit ADC, SigmaTel 3D
audio0 at auich0
"Intel 82801DB Modem" rev 0x03 at pci0 dev 31 function 6 not configured
isa0 at ichpcib0
isadma0 at isa0
pckbc0 at isa0 port 0x60/5
pckbd0 at pckbc0 (kbd slot)
pckbc0: using irq 1 for kbd slot
wskbd0 at pckbd0: console keyboard, using wsdisplay0
pms0 at pckbc0 (aux slot)
pckbc0: using irq 12 for aux slot
wsmouse0 at pms0 mux 0
pcppi0 at isa0 port 0x61
midi0 at pcppi0: <PC speaker>
spkr0 at pcppi0
npx0 at isa0 port 0xf0/16: using exception 16
biomask effd netmask effd ttymask ffff
pctr: 686-class user-level performance counters enabled
mtrr: Pentium Pro MTRR support
wdc2 at pcmcia0 function 0 "SanDisk, SDP, 5/3 0.6" port 0xa000/16
wd1 at wdc2 channel 0 drive 0: <SanDisk SDCFB-128>
wd1: 1-sector PIO, LBA, 122MB, 250880 sectors
wd1(wdc2:0:0): using BIOS timings
umidi0 at uhub2 port 2 configuration 1 interface 0
umidi0: ? product 0x0011, rev 1.10/0.01, addr 2
umidi0: (genuine USB-MIDI)
umidi0: out=1, in=1
midi1 at umidi0: <USB MIDI I/F>
dkcsum: wd0 matches BIOS drive 0x80
root on wd0d
rootdev=0x3 rrootdev=0x303 rawdev=0x302
--
'Instead of simply recommending that you sodomize yourself with a
retractable baton, let me recommend a specific model - the ASP 21". The
previous lawyers tried to use a cheaper brand, but it broke during the
action.'
