[linux-audio-user] virmidi and 2.6.14 (Demudi)

[Dave Phillips]

Clemens Ladisch wrote:

>What are you actually trying to do?
>>From where to where to you want MIDI messages to be routed?
>  
>
Dosemu has two methods for MIDI I/O. One is to use the midid daemon, but 
I've had latency issues with it so I prefer the second method, which is 
to create a link between ~/.dosemu/run/dosemu-midi and /dev/snd/CxDx. 
Yes, I could route it to /dev/midi directly on my desktop machine 
because it has a hardware MIDI port, but my laptop has no MIDI hardware. 
Thus, if I want to run dosemu MIDI apps on the laptop I need the virmidi 
module. The situation is nearly identical with Xsteem, I need the 
virmidi module for running Xsteem on my laptop.

As I said before, if these applications abided by ALSA standards I might 
be able to designate MIDI ports with the hw:x,x syntax. Alas, they 
don't, and I can't.

Best,

dp