[LAU] kernel and midi seq

[Emiliano Grilli]

"Christopher Stamper" <christopherstamper at gmail.com> writes:

> On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 2:20 PM, R Dicaire <kritek at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>     Is the midi seq brokenness in newer kernels attributed to the real
>     time patches only?
>
> Not too sure what you mean, since you're not very specific.
>
> ALSA Midi works just fine here, in Ubuntu 8.10, latest kernel. As I understand
> it, the RT kernel/patch will kill MIDI.
>
> So I'm pretty sure it's a RT-only problem.

I can confirm:

I only tested it briefly, but with ubuntu 8.10 regular kernel alsa
MIDI behaves OK, whereas with linux-rt I had no joy: good audio
performance but unuseable MIDI latency (with an external usb MIDI
keyboard)

Cheers
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Emiliano Grilli
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