/dev/midi and /dev/sequencer

[cpghost]

On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 11:02:04AM +0100, Ben Paley wrote:
> On Wednesday 24 August 2005 04:27, Robert Backhaus wrote:
> > On 8/24/05, Ben Paley <ben at spooty.net> wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I'm running 5.4-STABLE, cvsupped and everything rebuilt Mon Aug 22.
> > >
> > > Does anyone know what's happening with MIDI? I've got no /dev/midi
> > > or /dev/sequencer and don't know if it's even possible to turn them on in
> > > the kernel at the moment.
> > >
> > > I've also managed to compile and run Rosegarden-4 - it claims to work
> > > with arts instead of ALSA but I'm not having any luck starting it with
> > > sequencer or midi... any ideas?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Ben
> >
> > There is slow work being done by one developer to reestablish midi. A
> > set of patches was posted here for 5.4, and they aparently worked. I
> > couldn't get them to compile on CURRENT, though. I was not able to
> > locate a site on it, and the patch was posted to this list on Apr 26
> > by conrads(a)cox.net . He may be able to find you a later patch set
> > from "Mat".

Perhaps running some linux distro under qemu which supports MIDI could
temporarily help? Anyone tried this?

Regards,
-cpghost.

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