Re: Ali5451 and MIDI synth

Neale Banks (neale@lowendale.com.au)
Wed, 17 Jul 2002 18:04:48 +1000 (EST)


On 17 Jul 2002, Alan Cox wrote:

> On Wed, 2002-07-17 at 03:51, Neale Banks wrote:
> > * linux-2.2 has MIDI support in the code (v0.14.5c of trident.c) - but
> > this driver (a) doesn't work for basic audio[1] and (b) doesn't register a
> > MIDI synth device (and MIDI players complain of no device).
>
> ALSA supports the synth facilities of the device, but not as "midi". The
> trident synth doesn't talk midi.

Pardon the naive question, but does that mean that apps looking for
(IIRC) /dev/sequencer are going to be workable with this chip or not?

If yes, what do I need to read up on?

Thanks,
Neale.

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