[LAU] Is -Xalsarawidi the same as -Xraw or -Xseq?

[Chris Caudle]

On Mon, June 18, 2018 12:57 pm, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Jun 2018 09:18:11 -0500, Chris Caudle wrote:
>>On Mon, June 18, 2018 8:55 am, Victor A. Stoichita wrote:
>>> using -Xalsarawmidi combined with a2jmidid. I'm still not sure
>>> whether this is the same as -Xseq or -Xraw.
>>
>>I think -Xraw is an alias for -Xalsarawmidi, but in any case you should
>>not use either.
>
> Wrong! Better use alsarawmidi!

The current manpage for jackd does not mention the term "alsarawmidi" at
all, only seq or raw.  Searching the current source tree for jackd v2 I
found a description in JackALSARawMidiDriver.cpp that it was an
"Alternative ALSA raw MIDI backend."
I do not see  a way to instantiate that separately, however, the command
line processing has only entries for "seq" and "raw" as arguments to the
ALSA driver.

In any case, the correct answer is still to not use any -X argument at
all, let a2midid control the ALSA MIDI data and act as a jack client, at
least for jackd v2.

-- 
Chris Caudle