4 Oct
2004
4 Oct
'04
3:55 p.m.
On Monday 04 October 2004, Emiliano Grilli wrote:
http://lists.agnula.org/pipermail/users/2004-June/002045.html
http://lists.agnula.org/pipermail/users/2004-July/002335.html
Thanks. But they are talking about the alsa-firmware package. That collection
includes firmware for several PCI and PCMCIA devices, and also for Tascam USB
devices. This is not what we are talking here. There are not firmwares in
alsa-firmware package for the Midisport devices, for instance.
You have two choices for Midisport1x1, 2x2, UNO and USB-2-MIDI:
1. The GPL firmware written by Lars, and known as "ezusbmidi". There are easy
to install precompiled packages in agnula/demudi, CCRMA and Mandrake (and I
hope that more distros will include it in the future).
2. The proprietary firmware, that you can extract from the windows drivers
using the extractor in http://usb-midi-fw.sourceforge.net/
For other USB devices (4x4, 8x8...) you only have the second option.
Regards,
Pedro
I have no direct experience of devices that require
firmware, but I
recall a thread earlier this year on the agnula-user mailing list
discussing the
opportunity of distributing the firmwares, and if those firmwares were
"proprietary software" or not...
Can you please give me a pointer to that thread? > > As far as I can tell, agnula/demudi still
doesn't distribute those
> > firmwares.
They don't distribute the proprietary files from alsa-firmware, but they
distribute the ezusbmidi package, a GPL firmware for Midisport1x1, 2x2, UNO
and Steinberg USB-2-MIDI devices. See:
http://apt.agnula.org/pool/main/e/ezusbmidi/
You can use the Midisport2x2 in agnula/demudi, with only GPL software and
firmware. RMS shall bless your audio workstation with this setup.
redistributed
without the permission of their owners. It is proprietary
software. There are no sources. I wash my hands. But if you don't mind to
burn your soul in the hell, it is the only way to use some USB MIDI
devices on Linux.
That's why I would avoid them and buy the models that "just work" out of
the box, if I have the possibility to choose.