Chris Cannam wrote: > On Monday 17 Apr 2006 13:46, Clemens Ladisch wrote: > > The client numbering scheme was reorganized in ALSA 1.0.11rc1 because > > there were too many unused reserved numbers and not enough free > > numbers for more than eight cards. > > Incidentally this unannounced change broke Rosegarden 1.0. Rosegarden > relies on the client numbers to determine whether a port is system, > hardware or software -- there are significant functional differences > between the types of port, What are those differences? > and I see no other way to find out which type a port is -- if there is > one, I'd dearly like to know. snd_seq_client_info_get_type() Regards, Clemens