[PD] PD not listening to midi input

[John Harrison]

I'm anxious for a reply to this because I am also using ubuntu Breezy
and I am having the same problem. I tried Steiner's
Pd-0.38.4-extended-RC7 and suddenly the MIDI worked!...but I need JACK
support and RC7 doesn't have that...so I thought I'd build my own Pd,
figuring some necessary compiling option was missing in the ubuntu
Breezy binary...but I can't figure out what that option that is missing
is...and my own builds of Pd aren't working with MIDI either.

I am trying to compile Pd v0.38.4 to keep everything compatible...

-John

Marcelo Gomes de Queiroz wrote:

>Hello!
>
>I am trying to get a MIDI keyboard connected
>via USB with a midisport uno interface to talk
>to PD. I get midi data with 'cat /dev/midi1',
>and 'csound --sched -d -o dac --midi-device=1'
>also hears what I play, but the "Test Audio
>and MIDI" patch in PD doesn't respond to
>the input.
>
>I think the correct call would be 'pd -mididev 2'
>but I also tried several other combinations such
>as 
>
>pd                  (no arguments)
>pd -mididev N       (for N=0,1,2,3)
>pd -alsa -mididev N
>pd -oss -mididev N
>pd -jack -mididev N (after running 'jackd -R -d alsa -P -r 44100 -p 64 -n 4')
>
>and none of them work.
>
>I am using PD 0.38.4 in Linux (Kubuntu breezy),
>Kernel 2.6.12 and ALSA v1.0.9. I am not sure
>which information is relevant, so I include
>below the contents of /dev/sndstat,
>/proc/asound/devices and part of the output
>of lsmod concerning sound.
>
>I appreciate your help and thank you in advance,
>
>with best regards,
>
>Marcelo Queiroz
>
>------------
>/dev/sndstat
>
>Sound Driver:3.8.1a-980706 (ALSA v1.0.9 emulation code)
>Kernel: Linux mqz 2.6.12-10-386 #1 Mon Jan 16 17:18:08 UTC 2006 i686
>Config options: 0
>
>Installed drivers:
>Type 10: ALSA emulation
>
>Card config:
>Intel 82801BA-ICH2 with AD1885 at 0xe800, irq 17
>M-Audio MidiSport 1x1 at usb-0000:00:1f.2-2, full speed
>
>Audio devices:
>0: Intel 82801BA-ICH2 (DUPLEX)
>
>Synth devices: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG
>
>Midi devices:
>1: MidiSport 1x1
>
>Timers:
>7: system timer
>
>Mixers:
>0: Analog Devices AD1885
>1: mixer10
>
>--------------------
>/proc/asound/devices
>
> 25: [0- 1]: digital audio capture
> 16: [0- 0]: digital audio playback
> 24: [0- 0]: digital audio capture
>  0: [0- 0]: ctl
>  1:       : sequencer
> 33:       : timer
> 40: [1- 0]: raw midi
> 32: [1- 0]: ctl
>
>---------------------
>sudo lsmod | grep snd
>
>snd_seq_dummy           3844  0
>snd_seq_oss            29440  0
>snd_seq_midi            8608  0
>snd_seq_midi_event      6656  2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi
>snd_seq                44688  6 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
>snd_usb_audio          68160  0
>snd_usb_lib            13824  1 snd_usb_audio
>snd_rawmidi            22816  2 snd_seq_midi,snd_usb_lib
>snd_seq_device          8204  5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq,snd_rawmidi
>snd_hwdep               8608  1 snd_usb_audio
>snd_intel8x0           30144  1
>snd_ac97_codec         72188  1 snd_intel8x0
>snd_pcm_oss            46368  0
>snd_mixer_oss          16128  1 snd_pcm_oss
>snd_pcm                78344  4 snd_usb_audio,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
>snd_timer              21764  2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
>snd                    48644  14 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_usb_audio,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device,snd_hwdep,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer
>soundcore               9184  1 snd
>snd_page_alloc         10120  2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
>usbcore               104316  4 snd_usb_audio,snd_usb_lib,uhci_hcd
>
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