At Wed, 17 Aug 2005 00:48:44 +0300 (EEST), Kai Vehmanen wrote: > > Hi, > > On Fri, 12 Aug 2005, Lee Revell wrote: > > Um, /dev/snd/midi* are not supposed to be used directly by applications. > > They are intended to be accessed via alsa-lib. > > has there been (or is under planning) any major changes to this, or known > problems? So far, no. Simple open/read/write/close the device should work. Of course, this will lack of the functionality alsa-lib provides, e.g. like virtual MIDI. > Ecasound (and many other apps) has used /dev/snd/midi* with no reported > problems for many years now (at least since ALSA 0.6.x). See for example: > http://lalists.stanford.edu/lad/2001/Apr/0176.html > > I understand the general principle of getting rid of all direct > "user-space apps <-> ALSA kernel modules" interactions, but in this case > I'd like to stick with the current code until there's some practical > reason to update (adding support for ALSA sequencer API is another thing). virmidi is already in alsa-lib, so the byte streaming access via snd_rawmidi_read()/write() can work as a sequencer port. Takashi
