On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 08:08:00AM +0100, Clemens Ladisch wrote: > Thomas Rowe wrote: > > I have a ten year old Yamaha keyboard with a 'TO HOST' serial port > > connected to my computer's serial port. > > > > How do I wire up ttyS0 as a midi device? > > With the serial MIDI driver, snd-serial-u16550. See > <http://git.alsa-project.org/?p=alsa-kernel.git;a=blob;hb=HEAD;f=Documentation/sound/alsa/serial-u16550.txt>. > > > MIDI to USB cable ... Does that just show up as a working MIDI interface > > automatically? > > Yes. > Oh duh. $ sudo /sbin/setserial /dev/ttyS0 uart none $ setserial /dev/ttyS0 /dev/ttyS0, UART: unknown, Port: 0x03f8, IRQ: 4 $ sudo modprobe snd-serial-u16550 port=0x3f8 irq=4 Everything works fine. Thanks. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user