From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: x.zupftom@web.de Subject: Re: MIDI input patch Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2009 14:49:06 +0200 Message-ID: <708958976@web.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: Sender: linux-msdos-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" To: Samuel Bronson Cc: linux-msdos@vger.kernel.org > -----Urspr=FCngliche Nachricht----- > Von: "Samuel Bronson" > On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 8:15 PM, wrote: > > Hi, > > > > a year ago (crazy, it's actually to the day a year ago) I sent a pa= tch to the list that Stas Sergeev sent me which fixed a MIDI input prob= lem. =A0Today I've been installing Dosemu on another machine and found = the patch hasn't been applied to the repository. =A0After applying it m= anually, everything works fine. =A0Any reason why it didn't make it int= o the SVN repository? >=A0Would be great if someone could do it! >=20 > Do you know what exactly all this actually does? Sorry, I'm not familiar with the Dosemu code, neither are my programmin= g skills (not to mention my C skills) sufficient to dive into it. I ca= n explain the (solved) problem in more detail (in words or possibly as = screencast, if this helps) and provide logs from patched and unpatched = versions for comparison. My amateurish impression is that the unpatched dosemu isn't compatible = with the program's MIDI polling strategy. MIDI events are only taking = effect with great delay. If I'm lucky, after entering a few notes, the= y all pop up in the program with a delay of one or two seconds in betwe= en two notes while I'm watching. Some events are lost entirely (partic= ularly annoying if note-off events are lost). Sometimes obviously even= ts are stuck in the queue and only "pushed out" by following events, ty= pically two notes at a time. As long as there are events in the queue = (either "stuck" or going to pop up in a few seconds), the program does = not react to the qwerty keyboard. Hopefully with this information the patch, which fixes all of this, mak= es more sense to you. The problem with evaluating this patch is probably that there are hardl= y any people using MIDI input with Dosemu, I suspect. Dave Phillips wh= o is using (or used to use) Sequencer Plus Gold by Voyetra with Dosemu = helped me with getting MIDI input into Dosemu. I could try and install= that software to see whether this program also works with the patch. I hope the patch will eventually make it into mainstream distros becaus= e I know some people who are making a living from serious large scale w= ork for major players in the music publishing industry with Score, the = notation program I'm using in Dosemu. But in order to use MIDI input, = they have to maintain old machines with ISA hardware because (to my kno= wledge) no one in the Score community ever had success with getting MID= I input into Score with an emulator or a virtual machine. That's annoy= ing. Most of them never touched a Linux box and likely won't be ready = to patch, compile and install Dosemu manually (that's still a challengi= ng job for me, and I have gained at least a bit of experience over the = past few years I have been using Linux more or less frequently). If I can help with further information, logs etc., then please let me k= now. Thomas W. ________________________________________________________________ Neu: WEB.DE Doppel-FLAT mit Internet-Flatrate + Telefon-Flatrate f=FCr nur 19,99 Euro/mtl.!* http://produkte.web.de/go/02/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-msdos" = in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html