16 Feb
2004
16 Feb
'04
8:37 a.m.
Florin Andrei wrote:
I understand the concept of routing in hardware, and i
see the
advantages, but wouldn't that prevent aconnect/kacconect to do their
normal job?
No. There are two layers of routing. The hardware routing specifies
how the (hardware) MIDI connectors are connected to each other and/or
to the ports made available by the driver. ALSA's routing specifies
how these (software) ports are connected to each other, and/or to
applications.
(UM-550/UM-880)
In general, is there any way to control this interface in software under
Linux?
Chris Pickett already mentioned this is possible by sending SysEx's to
the control port. There isn't any point-and-click utility for Linux,
but it wouldn't be an overly intricate job to write one.
how stable are these cards (the ones that require your
loader)
under Linux? If i do the firmware loading correctly, they will
work as expected, right?
I don't have any M-Audio device, but from what I've heard, all
MidiSport devices work just fine.
Do you see any problems in the future, like - your
loader not working
anymore under future versions of the Linux kernel, etc.
I don't foresee any incompatible changes to the kernel.
HTH
Clemens