Re: new alsa docs.

[Patrick Shirkey <pshirkey@boosthardware.com>]

Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas wrote:
> El Mar 13 Ago 2002 17:01, Patrick Shirkey escribió:
> 
>>Clemens Ladisch wrote:
>>
>>>I didn't bother to report USB MIDI devices - until now:
>>
>>Thanks. I'm collecting them for now until I or Dan get the energy to add
>>them to the matrix.
> 
> 
> The "usb generic" instructions for USB-MIDI devices is a copy of the Midiman 
> MidisportNxN page. This is very inaccurate and confusing, as many devices 
> (e.g. the Roland/Edirol ones) aren't EZ-USB devices and don't need/accept the 
> ezusbmidi firmware at all. Please, remove the ezusbmidi references from the 
> generic usb-midi page.
> 

Currently I am trying to maintain as few pages as possible so the 
generic instructions access exactly the same data as ezusb devices. 
However I have made the ezusb instructions more recognisable.

If this is still too confusing then I will have to add another variable 
for all ezusb devices. I would rather not as it means one more little 
thing to remember. I will add a note on the matrix for these cards below.


> On the other hand, this device is reported by Clemens:
>  Steinberg        http://www.steinberg.net/
>     USB-2-MIDI       http://www.steinberg.net/products/ae/hardware/usb2midi/
> It is another EZ-USB based device, and needs the ezusbmidi firmware to work. 
> You can safely copy the Midisport page for it.
> 
> I would like to insist again about including "EZ-USB" in the chipset column 
> for  these devices: 
> 	Midiman Midisport NxN
> 	Midiman USB Keystations: 
> http://www.midiman.net/products/midiman/keystations.php
> 	Steinberg USB-MIDI-2 adaptor:
> http://www.steinberg.net/products/ae/hardware/usb2midi/
> 
> For the "chipset" column you can put here EZ-USB (or "Cypress AN2131XX") 
> http://www.cypress.com/products/datasheet.cfm?partnum=AN2131SC
> 
> This chipset is widely used in USB peripherals, not only MIDI ones, and it is  
> related to Intel 8051 chip. The firmware loader (fxload) for this chipset is 
> included in linux-hotplug: http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net/
> And SDCC (Small Device C Compiler) is a GPL tool that can be used to build 
> firmware drivers: http://sdcc.sourceforge.net/
> 
> Regards,
> Pedro
> 
> 
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