[Alsa-devel] why wouldn't Mandrake ship 8.2 with alsa 0.9?

2002-03-29 Thread fn ln
hi, does anybody have any idea why wouldn't Mandrake ship 8.2 with alsa 0.9? can anyone point me to main differences (in terms of functionality and compatibility) between alsa 0.5 and alsa 0.9 ? thanks john __ Find, Connect,

[Alsa-devel] recording MIDI with linux (2.4.8?), v_midi, perl ?

2002-03-27 Thread fn ln
hi, I'm getting a bit desparate here. I'm trying to record tunes from extenal MIDI device. I have Mandrake 8.1 (kernel 2.4.8, alsa-driver-0.5.11) and serial-port MIDI connection, so I use a v_midi driver (with handwritten character shunt between /dev/ttyS0 and /dev/midi1; v_midi is then an i

[Alsa-devel] Re: linux's SNDCTL_SEQ_RT_ENABLE and perl's MIDI::Music

2002-03-26 Thread fn ln
I have an impression that ALSA is not *competing*, my understanding was that it is a fully-compatible alternative which compatibly fulfills and further extends functionality of OSS. I expect that ALSA provides a compatible mechanism, but perhaps the correspondig symbol is called SEQ_REALTIME_A

[Alsa-devel] linux's SNDCTL_SEQ_RT_ENABLE and perl's MIDI::Music

2002-03-26 Thread fn ln
Hi, I would like to use perl, I guess, to record what an external device plays, and then be able to play it back. http://www.perl.com/CPAN-local/authors/id/S/SE/SETHJ/MIDI-Music-0.01.tar.gz needs SNDCTL_SEQ_RT_ENABLE so it can record MIDI events and calcualtes the delta times itself, I gues

Re: [Alsa-devel] using external MIDI device to control the computer

2002-03-20 Thread fn ln
--- Paul Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >etc. I imagine I would have to have a kernel module which would > >implement filtering of certain events and passing them to some place, > >like a pipe that my control program (perhaps perl) would read and > >perform corresponding actions that I woul

[Alsa-devel] using external MIDI device to control the computer

2002-03-20 Thread fn ln
Hi, I would like to use a digital piano keyboard attached to the serial port (MIDI-to-host 38400 bps MIDI connection) to generate some events on the computer. E.g. if I press the two lowest notes at the same time, I can move the mouse cursor or switch desktops, etc. I imagine I would have