Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] MIDI reset?
From: est_AT_hyperreal.org
Date: pe marras 12 1999 - 13:05:14 EST
Paul Winkler discourseth:
>
> Trouble is, since I don't really know what I'm doing :), I
> frequently get the soundcard "stuck"-- it won't respond to any more
> midi commands, and
> I can't even unload the driver (OSS-Linux 3.9.h-something-- running
> "soundoff" just gives a bunch of "device or resource in use"
> messages; likewise for trying to do rmmod by hand). This seems to
> happen with a large number of note-ons without specific note-offs,
> e.g. when doing fast percussion stuff.
Have you tried adding note-offs?
> I've tried writing a "reset" (first byte is 0xFF) to the soundcard,
> but that doesn't seem to help. I'm not sure if anything is getting
> through. The only solution at the moment is to reboot-- yuck.
Yuck indeed. There are some other messages you could try ("stop",
"all sound off", "all notes off"), but the standard is pretty
insistent that none of them is a substitute for note-offs. Still,
they might be worth a try.
Eric
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