[PD] udev & usb midi interfaces

[Frank Barknecht]

Hi,

On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 11:28:42AM +0200, Daniel Wilcox wrote:
> Why udev rules then ...? I use the portaudio index of the soundcard to pass
> to pd with -audiodev on startup (I use -nogui and alsa) and another script
> which parses aconnect -io to determine the alsa mdii index, then calls
> aconnect again to connect pd with the midi device.
> 
> Actually, perhaps you are right as it would be nice to have udev run
> aconnect whenever my midi device is plugged in.

If your devices are different, you can use the vendor and product ids to
specify the soundcard index ALSA uses:
http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php/MultipleUSBAudioDevices

If you really must use udev, maybe this helps: 
http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php/Udev

Ciao
-- 
Frank