[PD] Help with MIDI i/o Linux Pd

[Steve Briggs]

Cool :)
I've not used udev yet. Glad to see it has built in symlink/aliasing.
Strange re:rc.local. I always feel like I've failed to find the right 
answer if I have
to use rc.local. Even though it's a perfectly good place to put things 
it always feels slightly dirty.

For those who would like to know about the udev/devfs situation here is 
a link to an informative read:
http://lwn.net/Articles/65197/

...steve...
Jamie Bullock wrote:

>Thanks Steve!
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>It seems like I am using udev! I'd never heard of it before, but it
>seems quite cool. The problem is solved by replacing:
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>KERNEL="midi[CD0-9]*",   NAME="snd/%k"
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>with
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>KERNEL="midi[CD0-9]*",   NAME="snd/%k", SYMLINK="midi%e"
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>in /etc/udev/rules.d/_your_rules_file
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>I didn't want to go down the rc.local route because that seemed like a
>workaround rather than a fix.
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>Jamie
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>On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 14:18 -0600, Steve Briggs wrote: 
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>>You could re-create them at startup by putting them in /etc/rc.local
>>rc.local gets run at startup after all other system scripts.
>>Your links are disapearing because you are using devfs or udev right?
>>so the whole /dev/ directory tree is dynamicaly created in the same way 
>>/proc/ is.
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>>The /dev/midiX devices are OSS specific btw not TCL specific I believe.
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>>...steve...
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