Re: [Alsa-user] Questions in order to complete the manual

2003-11-24 Thread Clemens Ladisch
David Garcia Garzon wrote: - Which is the use that can have rawmidi that sequencer don't? It is only a backward compatibility interface? In most cases, yes. It comes in handy if you have a bunch of MIDI bytes and don't want to manage the complexity of parsing them and/or creating sequencer

Re: [Alsa-user] Questions in order to complete the manual

2003-11-24 Thread Florian Schmidt
On Mon, 24 Nov 2003 04:46:13 +0100 David Garcia Garzon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks, any help wil be wellcome. And, yes, i am convinced: a basic treatment of the vertical view of the architecture will be present, but not as the key structure of the document, i prefer an horizontal

[Alsa-user] Questions in order to complete the manual

2003-11-23 Thread David Garcia Garzon
As i posted before i am on a user manual[1] (by now in spanish) about sound infraestructure in Linux. I need some answers in order to fill some dark zones on the manual. I was unable to post the first block of questions on devel list so i post them here. Web references or code references may

Re: [Alsa-user] Questions in order to complete the manual

2003-11-23 Thread Florian Schmidt
On Sun, 23 Nov 2003 18:08:02 +0100 David Garcia Garzon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.salleurl.edu/~is04069/Modders/Docs/alsadoc.html Hi, i followed your link and althogh i'm not capable of speaking spanish i did look at the Arquitectura general section and you dive right into the

Re: [Alsa-user] Questions in order to complete the manual

2003-11-23 Thread Frank Barknecht
Hallo, David Garcia Garzon hat gesagt: // David Garcia Garzon wrote: - Which is the use that can have rawmidi that sequencer don't? It is only a backward compatibility interface? Rawmidi devices (/dev/snd/midiCxCx) are compatibility interfaces, but still in wide use even with modern software

Re: [Alsa-user] Questions in order to complete the manual

2003-11-23 Thread Florian Schmidt
On Mon, 24 Nov 2003 02:06:20 +0100 David Garcia Garzon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The architectural division you did (the same one that appears in all existing documentation) is very useful (in fact, vital) for programmers but only annecdotal for final users (or it should be in the future).

Re: [Alsa-user] Questions in order to complete the manual

2003-11-23 Thread David Garcia Garzon
A Diumenge 23 Novembre 2003 20:02, Frank Barknecht va escriure: Hallo, David Garcia Garzon hat gesagt: // David Garcia Garzon wrote: - Which is the use that can have rawmidi that sequencer don't? It is only a backward compatibility interface? Rawmidi devices (/dev/snd/midiCxCx) are

Re: [Alsa-user] Questions in order to complete the manual

2003-11-23 Thread David Garcia Garzon
I will be glad to read it then. I would also like, if my aruments convinced you that at least a basic treatment of the architecture of alsa is necessary, assist you in writing something up. Thanks, any help wil be wellcome. And, yes, i am convinced: a basic treatment of the vertical view of