RE: [Alsa-user] External MIDI with SB Live! Value

2002-10-13 Thread Wolfgang Hamann
>> >> Sorry, I should have done a bit more testing. I've >> just verified this: pmidi data IS echoed, so long as >> someone is listening. The /proc/asound/card1/midiD0 >> statistics don't update received bytes if no one is >> listening. >> >> So it looks like I have *another* bad cable. This >

RE: [Alsa-user] External MIDI with SB Live! Value

2002-10-12 Thread Thomas Vaughan
> One hypothesis: pmidi opens the midi device in > write-only mode, which blocks the echo (read) at a > low level (before it shows up in /p/a/c/midiD0). > And my cable is busted for MIDI in :( I'm hoping > there are better (software-only) hypotheses. Sorry, I should have done a bit more testing.

RE: [Alsa-user] External MIDI with SB Live! Value

2002-10-12 Thread Thomas Vaughan
More info on this. As per Clemens, I got a new cable, and now my system is 50% working. I can send external MIDI events out, and drive my MIDI gear from my Linux box. But I still can't receive any external MIDI events. And the behavior is strange: If I directly connect pins 12 and 15 of my gam

RE: [Alsa-user] External MIDI with SB Live! Value

2002-10-11 Thread Thomas Vaughan
an > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [Alsa-user] External MIDI with SB Live! Value > > > Thomas Vaughan wrote: > > 1) Is there a good debugging guide? I'm guessing > > that ALSA experts have a checklist, like > > - check kernel config > > -

Re: [Alsa-user] External MIDI with SB Live! Value

2002-10-10 Thread Clemens Ladisch
Thomas Vaughan wrote: > 1) Is there a good debugging guide? I'm guessing > that ALSA experts have a checklist, like > - check kernel config > - check alsa build config > - check /etc/modules.conf > - check lsmod > - etc. Try http://www.google.com/search?q=alsa+troub

RE: [Alsa-user] External MIDI with SB Live! Value

2002-10-09 Thread Thomas Vaughan
Specific answers inline. High-level questions: 1) Is there a good debugging guide? I'm guessing that ALSA experts have a checklist, like - check kernel config - check alsa build config - check /etc/modules.conf - check lsmod - etc. 2) I just tried the Creative L

Re: [Alsa-user] External MIDI with SB Live! Value

2002-10-09 Thread Clemens Ladisch
Thomas Vaughan wrote: > Yet another installment of my external MIDI > saga. As yet I've been unable to receive any > external MIDI events through my card's joystick > port (which I now believe is the MPU401). Does it work in another operating system? > One thing I've noticed: the emu10k1 driver

[Alsa-user] External MIDI with SB Live! Value

2002-10-09 Thread Thomas Vaughan
Hello all- Yet another installment of my external MIDI saga. As yet I've been unable to receive any external MIDI events through my card's joystick port (which I now believe is the MPU401). So I'm recompiling everything. One thing I've noticed: the emu10k1 drivers seem to have their own mpu40

RE: [Alsa-user] External MIDI with SB Live Value

2002-10-05 Thread Thomas Vaughan
as? I would dearly love to get external MIDI working for this soundcard. Any and all suggestions or diagnostics would be appreciated! > -Original Message- > From: Wolfgang Hamann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002 4:24 AM > To: Thomas Vaughan > Cc: [EM

Re: [Alsa-user] External MIDI with SB Live Value

2002-10-04 Thread Wolfgang Hamann
Audio out on the card is fine, and timidity is able to play. What I really need to do is read and write MIDI to external devices, and I'm having problems with that. I can open /dev/midi for reading, but read calls hang indefinitely, even though I've got MIDI devices sending events to the card.

[Alsa-user] External MIDI with SB Live Value

2002-10-03 Thread Thomas Vaughan
Hello all- I've seen posts similar to this but none with the exact hardware/setup. I've got an SB Live Value OEM, so my external MIDI is only through the joystick port on the card. Audio out on the card is fine, and timidity is able to play. What I really need to do is read and write MIDI to