Re: [Alsa-user] Problems with eMagic Unitor8

[Bruno <br...@gm...>]

Hi Clement,

Thanks for the response.

2011/8/13 Clemens Ladisch <cla...@go...>:
> The driver doesn't try to discover anything, it just blindly sends
> the initialization SysEx for one device.
>
> Do you have any documentation for these SysEx commands?

The only thing I found is this:

http://www.potm.org/software/Unitor/mididata/index.html

>> I tried to write a simple C program to check if the error is
>> on the Perl side, but it didn't work
>
> What exactly does "didn't work" mean?

It was able to receive the messages (without crashing), but was not
sending anything. However, I would rather assume it was because of my
lack of experience with ALSA programming and not enough C skills,
rather than any shortcomings of the ALSA library itself.

> Use SND_SEQ_OPEN_DUPLEX in snd_seq_open.
> Drop the snd_seq_event_input_pending call; snd_seq_event_input
> automatically waits for new events.

Thanks, will try it when I'm back home and able to check it against
the hardware.

Regards,

Bruno