[PlanetCCRMA] /dev/midi and pd

[Fernando Lopez-Lezcano]

On Tue, 2005-02-08 at 19:13, Jon B wrote:
> Yes, I just found that.  So I tried it, but it doesn't work, because
> my midiC_D_ files have changed names.
> 
> > There is a way to tell udev to recreate devices automatically on boot
> > (it's on the fc3 release notes). Copy the devices from /dev/ to
> > /etc/udev/devices/. Again, would be better to alter the creation rules
> > or really find the bug :-)

In reality those files should not be links, they should be normal device
files (made with mknod). This is what I get on an old rh9 machine:

> ls -l /dev/midi*
crw-------    1 nando    root      35,   0 Jan 30  2003 /dev/midi0
crw-------    1 nando    root      14,   2 Jan 30  2003 /dev/midi00
crw-------    1 nando    root      14,  18 Jan 30  2003 /dev/midi01
crw-------    1 nando    root      14,  34 Jan 30  2003 /dev/midi02
crw-------    1 nando    root      14,  50 Jan 30  2003 /dev/midi03
crw-------    1 nando    root      35,   1 Jan 30  2003 /dev/midi1
crw-------    1 nando    root      35,   2 Jan 30  2003 /dev/midi2
crw-------    1 nando    root      35,   3 Jan 30  2003 /dev/midi3

-- Fernando