Tuesday, July 31, 2018

Re: autri(4) disabled by default

On Tue, Jul 31, 2018 at 05:51:06PM +0100, Peter Kay wrote:
> On 31 July 2018 at 14:22, Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de> wrote:
> > On 2018-07-31, Janne Johansson <icepic.dz@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >>> I see autri(4) is disabled by default in an amd64 kernel, probably
> >>> others too, and has been for a very long time.
> >>
> >> Seems like it came over with the initial amd64 port from i386, and noone
> >> tested it on amd64, so it never got enabled but remained commented out.
> >
> > It worked on sparc64, where it is enabled by default, back when I
> > still had a Blade 100.
>
> I can confirm it does work fine! Checked some Chrome and mplayer, no
> worries with audio. Not sure about MIDI, nothing comes out of the
> sound card but not too fussed about that.
>

thanks for the confirmation.

the midi(4) device is a simple serial port on the card used to connect
midi gears (synthesizers, keyboards alike). So no sound is expected to
come from the sound card when midi is used.

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