/dev/midi and /dev/sequencer

[Ben Paley]

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".

Thanks a lot for your help - I don't seem to be having much luck finding the 
patch in the archives but I'll keep looking - in the mean time, I'm CCing 
this to conrads - thanks a lot for the tip.

Conrad... got any hints?

Thanks everyone,
Ben