Does wine handle virtual midi ports correct on OSX?

[Steve Schow]

Thanks a lot for that.  Would be nice to get to the bottom of this  
issue and I am happy to run some tests if  he can help me set debug  
flags or whatever to figure it out.


On May 7, 2009, at 1:14 PM, Ken Thomases wrote:

> On May 6, 2009, at 11:20 PM, Dewdman42 wrote:
>
>> Does anyone know if Darwine can be fixed to handle virtual midi ports
>> correctly?  They work very sporadically right now.  It seems to be  
>> related
>> to getting the ports flushed or initialized or something.  When  
>> there is a
>> virtual midi port present (under OSX), Wine seems to see it and  
>> lists it as
>> an available midi port, but I have not been able to consistently  
>> get that
>> port to function correctly.  Sometimes it does and sometimes it  
>> doesn't and
>> it seems to related to switching it on and off in some fashion  
>> makes it
>> work, though I can't seem to find a pattern that will work  
>> consistently.
>>
>> All I can figure is that somehow Wine is not handling midi ports in  
>> a way
>> that is compatible with OSX virtual midi ports.
>>
>> Anyone have any experience or knowledge in this area?
>
> As far as I know, only Emmanuel Maillard has touched the MIDI code  
> in the Core Audio driver.  I'm CC'ing him, just to be sure he sees  
> this.
>
> Cheers,
> Ken
>

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