[PlanetCCRMA] serial midi access solved, but using port leads to deadlock?

[Crispin]

Hello

A while back I had some problems with the serial midi module; I could not
use the port as a normal user, the following happened:

> [crispin at renato crispin]$ ls -l /dev/midi01
> crwx------    1 crispin  root      14,  18 Feb  5 14:16 /dev/midi01
> [crispin at renato crispin]$ cat >/dev/midi01
> bash: /dev/midi01: Permission denied

http://ccrma-mail.stanford.edu/pipermail/planetccrma/2005-February/008008.ht
ml

This can be solved with two things done as root, before the "modprobe
snd-serialmidi":
setserial /dev/ttyS0 uart none
chmod a+rw /dev/ttyS0
(or something more sensible with the uucp group).

However, when I now run a program which sends data to midi01 (i.e. seq24 or
cat), the program hangs as soon as it tries to send data.  I can't even
"kill 9" it as root.

Can anyone help with this please?!

Thankyou,

-- 
Crispin