From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeffrey Scott Flesher Gmail Subject: GR-55 Driver Date: Thu, 12 May 2011 11:20:48 -0700 Message-ID: <1305224448.5083.37.camel@TrinaryDragon> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail-pv0-f179.google.com (mail-pv0-f179.google.com [74.125.83.179]) by alsa0.perex.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38564243FF for ; Thu, 12 May 2011 20:20:50 +0200 (CEST) Received: by pvf33 with SMTP id 33so953671pvf.38 for ; Thu, 12 May 2011 11:20:48 -0700 (PDT) List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org Errors-To: alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org To: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org I need a Driver for the Roland GR-55 Guitar Synthesizer, not sure how to get started, so I thought this would be a good place to ask. The GR-55 has MIDI and AUDIO KSNAME_Wo11="WaveOut1-1" WDM.Wo11.szPname="OUT (GR-55)" KSNAME_Wi11="WaveIn1-1" WDM.Wi11.szPname="IN (GR-55)" KSNAME_Md11="Midi1-1" WDM.Md11.szPname="GR-55" My thinking is that there may be a driver that is similar, or someone could already be working on a driver, if so, I would like to find out if I could work on that project or if I could start a new project here. I did contact Roland about getting help in the way of Documentation; but was told not to count on it since most of this documentation is proprietary; so I might end up having to snoop the information to reverse engineer it. I have been a programmer for over 30 years, and have written Unix drivers and interfaces back in the 80's; things have changed since then and Linux is Unix like, but ALSA seems a lot easier than what we did back in those days. I can get up to speed with just a point in the right direction. Things like do I do this as a driver or a module? Are just a few questions that I need answers to, just to get started. Can you recommend a driver that is close enough to use as a template to start a new driver from? Thanks. Jeff Flesher