[LAU] Option to jackd to get ALSA MIDI stuff?

[Emanuel Rumpf]

2009/6/6  <hollunder at gmx.at>:
> On Sat, 6 Jun 2009 22:04:13 +0200
> Emanuel Rumpf <xbran at web.de> wrote:
>> 2009/6/5  <hollunder at gmx.at>:
>> > On Fri, 05 Jun 2009 14:47:40 +0800
>> > "sonofzev at iinet.net.au" <sonofzev at iinet.net.au> wrote:
>> >> On Fri Jun  5 16:38 , Ken Restivo  sent:
>> >>
>> >> >I remember discussion of giving an option to jackd (was it "-X"?)
>> >> >in order to
>> >> get it to show all the ALSA MIDI stuff in JACK MIDI. I've tried it
>> >> on
>> > Maybe you mean -Xseq ?
>> >
>> > I don't know what it does exactly. I see all hardware and all midi
>> > ports of alsa modular synth in qjackctl's jack and alsa midi tabs.
>> >
>>
>> I see the alsa-ports in the jack-midi window too,
>> but why don't they inherit proper alsa-port names ?
>> It's hard to guess the alsa-port, where "midi_playback_4" connects
>> to.... _______________________________________________
>
> For me they have quite sane names, not totally consistent but good
> enough I think, and both in qjackctl and patchage, so I assume it
> depends on the jack version.
>

It's not the jack version.

But Ohh !!  I found an option in the qjackctl configuration dialog:
Third Tab (View) at bottom right, I selected "second".
Now the ports have meaningful names. Great !