Re: winmm/midi tests and VMware

2010-03-03 Thread Ben Klein
On 3 March 2010 19:26, Paul Vriens wrote: > On 03/03/2010 08:47 AM, Ben Klein wrote: >> Given that hardware connections to external synthesisers are, at least >> in the Linux-side context, considered "synthesisers", I'm not sure >> what you mean by this. >> > > For the record, I'm running VMware W

Re: winmm/midi tests and VMware

2010-03-03 Thread Paul Vriens
On 03/03/2010 08:47 AM, Ben Klein wrote: On 3 March 2010 18:10, Paul Vriens wrote: On 03/03/2010 01:30 AM, Ben Klein wrote: If I understand this correctly, Wine/the tests are correctly detecting an MPU-401 "hardware" synth device because the driver is loaded, but VMware doesn't emulate the ha

Re: winmm/midi tests and VMware

2010-03-02 Thread Ben Klein
On 3 March 2010 18:10, Paul Vriens wrote: > On 03/03/2010 01:30 AM, Ben Klein wrote: >> >> If I understand this correctly, Wine/the tests are correctly detecting >> an MPU-401 "hardware" synth device because the driver is loaded, but >> VMware doesn't emulate the hardware and ends up confusing Win

Re: winmm/midi tests and VMware

2010-03-02 Thread Paul Vriens
On 03/03/2010 01:30 AM, Ben Klein wrote: If I understand this correctly, Wine/the tests are correctly detecting an MPU-401 "hardware" synth device because the driver is loaded, but VMware doesn't emulate the hardware and ends up confusing Windows and hanging (presumably due to some I/O wait). I'd

Re: winmm/midi tests and VMware

2010-03-02 Thread Ben Klein
On 3 March 2010 06:47, Julius Schwartzenberg wrote: > Paul Vriens wrote: >> >> I give up. Tried several combinations on XP (old and newer driver with or >> without waveset files), to no avail. > > I found a solution. The earlier stuff I wrote here is completely unrelated. > The Creative soft-synth

Re: winmm/midi tests and VMware

2010-03-02 Thread Paul Vriens
On 03/02/2010 08:54 PM, Paul Vriens wrote: On 03/02/2010 08:47 PM, Julius Schwartzenberg wrote: Paul Vriens wrote: I give up. Tried several combinations on XP (old and newer driver with or without waveset files), to no avail. I found a solution. The earlier stuff I wrote here is completely un

Re: winmm/midi tests and VMware

2010-03-02 Thread Paul Vriens
On 03/02/2010 08:47 PM, Julius Schwartzenberg wrote: Paul Vriens wrote: I give up. Tried several combinations on XP (old and newer driver with or without waveset files), to no avail. I found a solution. The earlier stuff I wrote here is completely unrelated. The Creative soft-synth included wi

Re: winmm/midi tests and VMware

2010-03-02 Thread Julius Schwartzenberg
Paul Vriens wrote: I give up. Tried several combinations on XP (old and newer driver with or without waveset files), to no avail. I found a solution. The earlier stuff I wrote here is completely unrelated. The Creative soft-synth included with the drivers using the wave sets works fine. It'

Re: winmm/midi tests and VMware

2010-03-02 Thread Paul Vriens
On 03/02/2010 07:03 PM, Lei Zhang wrote: VMware can also emulate a Soundblaster 16. Does that have the MIDI capabilities needed? You need to change sound.virtualDev = "es1371" to sound.virtualdev = "sb16" in the .vmx file. Tried that, but then I have no device. The log shows: vcpu-0| SB16 does

Re: winmm/midi tests and VMware

2010-03-02 Thread Lei Zhang
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 3:07 AM, Paul Vriens wrote: > On 03/02/2010 11:47 AM, Julius Schwartzenberg wrote: >> >> Hi Paul, >> >> Paul Vriens wrote: >>> >>> There are 2 ways (I can see) to fix this issue: >>> >>> 1. Get rid of (or disable) the sound device on the failing boxes. This >>> means of cour

Re: winmm/midi tests and VMware

2010-03-02 Thread Paul Vriens
On 03/02/2010 06:51 PM, Maarten Lankhorst wrote: If you remove the midiOutReset call it works? What happens if you try to play a single note first? Hi Maarten, I will give that a try although I know I tried to use Microsoft Media Player 10 with that device and it hung as well. Removing the

Re: winmm/midi tests and VMware

2010-03-02 Thread Maarten Lankhorst
Hoi Paul, On 02-03-10 17:38, Paul Vriens wrote: On 03/02/2010 04:19 PM, Paul Vriens wrote: On 03/02/2010 04:05 PM, Maarten Lankhorst wrote: Instead of trying to work around the problem, could you try to find out exactly where and why it is hanging first? Hi Maarten, I've been in talks with

Re: winmm/midi tests and VMware

2010-03-02 Thread Paul Vriens
On 03/02/2010 04:19 PM, Paul Vriens wrote: On 03/02/2010 04:05 PM, Maarten Lankhorst wrote: Instead of trying to work around the problem, could you try to find out exactly where and why it is hanging first? Hi Maarten, I've been in talks with Jörg for several weeks now trying to figure out wh

Re: winmm/midi tests and VMware

2010-03-02 Thread Paul Vriens
On 03/02/2010 04:05 PM, Maarten Lankhorst wrote: Instead of trying to work around the problem, could you try to find out exactly where and why it is hanging first? Hi Maarten, I've been in talks with Jörg for several weeks now trying to figure out why it fails. I tried dozens of combinations

Re: winmm/midi tests and VMware

2010-03-02 Thread Maarten Lankhorst
Hi Paul, On 02-03-10 11:28, Paul Vriens wrote: Just wanted your opinion on the following: VMware Workstation officially only supports MIDI output via the synthesizer device. The problem I'm having with several of my VMware boxes (and from the looks, Francois' boxes have the same issues) is t

Re: winmm/midi tests and VMware

2010-03-02 Thread Paul Vriens
On 03/02/2010 02:27 PM, Julius Schwartzenberg wrote: Paul Vriens wrote: On 03/02/2010 01:33 PM, Julius Schwartzenberg wrote: I think some versions of the drivers come with with the required wavesets for the software synthesizer, while with others you had to get it from the original CD. You shou

Re: winmm/midi tests and VMware

2010-03-02 Thread Julius Schwartzenberg
Paul Vriens wrote: On 03/02/2010 01:33 PM, Julius Schwartzenberg wrote: I think some versions of the drivers come with with the required wavesets for the software synthesizer, while with others you had to get it from the original CD. You should make sure this ecw file is also present I guess. Th

Re: winmm/midi tests and VMware

2010-03-02 Thread Paul Vriens
On 03/02/2010 01:33 PM, Julius Schwartzenberg wrote: I think some versions of the drivers come with with the required wavesets for the software synthesizer, while with others you had to get it from the original CD. You should make sure this ecw file is also present I guess. There seems to be some

Re: winmm/midi tests and VMware

2010-03-02 Thread Julius Schwartzenberg
Paul Vriens wrote: On 03/02/2010 11:47 AM, Julius Schwartzenberg wrote: Hi Paul, Paul Vriens wrote: There are 2 ways (I can see) to fix this issue: 1. Get rid of (or disable) the sound device on the failing boxes. This means of course far less coverage of tests. 2. There is an option in the A

Re: winmm/midi tests and VMware

2010-03-02 Thread Paul Vriens
On 03/02/2010 11:47 AM, Julius Schwartzenberg wrote: Hi Paul, Paul Vriens wrote: There are 2 ways (I can see) to fix this issue: 1. Get rid of (or disable) the sound device on the failing boxes. This means of course far less coverage of tests. 2. There is an option in the Audio control panel t

Re: winmm/midi tests and VMware

2010-03-02 Thread Alexandre Julliard
Paul Vriens writes: > 2. There is an option in the Audio control panel to only use the > default devices. This doesn't prevent the 'enumeration' from listing > the failing device but we could have the tests skip 'non default' > devices. The attached patch is a first attempt and does work on my XP

Re: winmm/midi tests and VMware

2010-03-02 Thread Julius Schwartzenberg
Hi Paul, Paul Vriens wrote: There are 2 ways (I can see) to fix this issue: 1. Get rid of (or disable) the sound device on the failing boxes. This means of course far less coverage of tests. 2. There is an option in the Audio control panel to only use the default devices. This doesn't prevent

winmm/midi tests and VMware

2010-03-02 Thread Paul Vriens
Hi Alexandre, Just wanted your opinion on the following: VMware Workstation officially only supports MIDI output via the synthesizer device. The problem I'm having with several of my VMware boxes (and from the looks, Francois' boxes have the same issues) is that the midi tests hang (not on al