Re: Ali5451 and MIDI synth

[Alan Cox]

On Wed, 2002-07-17 at 09:04, Neale Banks wrote:
> 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?
 
The old /dev/sequencer stuff died with ISA bus midi synths. None of the
PCI sound drivers support it.