Re: [LMMS-devel] Raw-MIDI error

[Trustmaster <tru...@sa...>]

>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm running a Gentoo box with 2 soundcards and Novation ReMOTE LE MIDI
>> keyboard. And I'm not lucky with making this MIDI work with LMMS. The
>> keybord is compatible with ALSA usbmidi, which I have learnt by playing
>> it with JACK and ZynAddSubFx successfully. But I want to use it with LMMS.
>>
>> On the MIDI configuration page I've chosen the ALSA Raw-MIDI driver and
>> filled in my device (hw:2,0,0). But when I restart LMMS I get the
>> following error:
>> midiALSARaw::run(): Got EINTR while polling. Will stop polling
>> MIDI-events from MIDI-port.
>>
>> Do you happen to know the reason of this and how to solve it?
>>     
> I strongly advice *not* to use Raw MIDI but the ALSA MIDI Sequencer system. 
> Did you try to use it? This also allows to use MIDI-connections and all that 
> stuff.
>
> toby
>   
To tell you the truth I'm absolutely new to using MIDI keyboard with
ALSA and there's no documentation on setting it up from the end-user
point of view. Probably someone writes LMMS MIDI HOWTO in LMMS Wiki some
day, doesn't he?

Yes, I've tried using ALSA Sequencer. I had filled in "default" as
divice name and restarted LMMS. This time it didn't produce any error
output, but when I tried to play some notes with my keyboard (say, with
LB-302 or any other synth), it did nothing. Probably it's because my
MIDI keyboard is not a "default" device (I have 2 soundcards besides
it), but I don't know how to learn the correct SEQ device.