[LAU] sysex on arch

[Atte André Jensen]

Hi

I need to do backup of some hardware synths on my arch system. I first 
tried simplesysexxer, but it doesn't seem to receive anything (actually 
the very first time I tried, "something" happened, but since then it's 
been dead). So I looked at amidi, but "amidi -l" fails like this:

atte at vestbjerg:~$ amidi -l
Dir Device    Name
cannot determine device number: Inappropriate ioctl for device

It seems that there might be something wrong on my system, or?

I should note that my physical midiin is located on my edirol (FA66) 
firewire audio interface, and I use a2jmidid to bridge between alsa-midi 
and jack-midi. I tested with gmidimonitor and messages are indeed 
floating into the system.

Any help appreciated!

atte at vestbjerg:~$ lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
fuse                   57240  3
ipv6                  243529  12
usbhid                 32307  0
uvcvideo               55373  0
hid                    62095  1 usbhid
snd_seq_dummy           1119  0
usb_storage            34716  0
uas                     6658  0
videodev               57747  1 uvcvideo
snd_seq_oss            25232  0
snd_seq_midi_event      4568  1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq                41912  11 
snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_seq_device          4409  3 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
v4l1_compat            13986  2 uvcvideo,videodev
snd_pcm_oss            33950  0
snd_mixer_oss          15366  1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_hda_codec_realtek   224668  1
arc4                    1078  2
ecb                     1597  2
i915                  362032  3
snd_hda_intel          18988  0
iwl3945               134692  0
snd_hda_codec          64796  2 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel
drm_kms_helper         23703  1 i915
snd_hwdep               4804  1 snd_hda_codec
r8169                  31536  0
snd_pcm                59496  3 snd_pcm_oss,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec
drm                   141584  4 i915,drm_kms_helper
iwlcore                78435  1 iwl3945
snd_timer              15687  2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
uhci_hcd               19163  0
mac80211              178372  2 iwl3945,iwlcore
snd                    43987  13 
snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hwdep,snd_pcm,snd_timer
intel_agp               8840  1 i915
ehci_hcd               34522  0
sdhci_pci               5978  0
firewire_ohci          23529  0
i2c_i801                6954  0
cpufreq_ondemand        7480  2
firewire_core          43457  15 firewire_ohci
acpi_cpufreq            5101  1
i2c_algo_bit            4191  1 i915
sparse_keymap           2372  0
soundcore               4961  1 snd
mii                     3206  1 r8169
iTCO_wdt                8877  0
cfg80211              120401  3 iwl3945,iwlcore,mac80211
intel_gtt              11863  3 i915,intel_agp
sdhci                  14925  1 sdhci_pci
i2c_core               16029  6 
videodev,i915,drm_kms_helper,drm,i2c_i801,i2c_algo_bit
iTCO_vendor_support     1441  1 iTCO_wdt
freq_table              2007  2 cpufreq_ondemand,acpi_cpufreq
shpchp                 23205  0
usbcore               117240  7 
usbhid,uvcvideo,usb_storage,uas,uhci_hcd,ehci_hcd
agpgart                22880  3 drm,intel_agp,intel_gtt
psmouse                50354  0
toshiba_bluetooth       1518  0
rfkill                 12958  1 cfg80211
snd_page_alloc          6053  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
pci_hotplug            21691  1 shpchp
video                  10367  1 i915
crc_itu_t               1061  1 firewire_core
mmc_core               55282  1 sdhci
wmi                     6873  0
output                  1456  1 video
pcspkr                  1367  0
serio_raw               3638  0
sg                     21196  0
evdev                   7179  15
battery                 8335  0
ac                      2433  0
button                  3882  1 i915
thermal                 6590  0
processor              22529  3 acpi_cpufreq
mperf                   1019  1 acpi_cpufreq
ext3                  111097  3
jbd                    39547  1 ext3
mbcache                 4338  1 ext3
sd_mod                 25488  5
sr_mod                 13569  0
cdrom                  31666  1 sr_mod
ahci                   17693  4
libahci                15536  1 ahci
ata_piix               18266  0
pata_acpi               2348  0
libata                151324  4 ahci,libahci,ata_piix,pata_acpi
scsi_mod              107414  6 usb_storage,uas,sg,sd_mod,sr_mod,libata


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Atte

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