Hawkeye Parker wrote:
> problem:  get midi in/out (externally) of my sblive.
>
> pmidi -l shows that i have UART
>
> 72:0     Rawmidi 1 - EMU10K1 MPU-401 (U    EMU10K1 MPU-401 (UART)
>
> question:  is this the game port?

Yes.

> i'd thought to use pmidi to send events to the UART port (72:0),
> like:
>
> pmidi -p72:0 somefile.mid
>
> and then monitor the corresponding device (/dev/snd/midiC1D0??)
> with gmidimon. but ... i've tried monitoring all of the possible
> devices, and gmidimon displays nothing.

The data you play with pmidi is sent to the output port.  gmidimon
reads the data that arrives at the input port.

Either use a MIDI cable to connect the MIDI Out and MIDI In connectors
of your gameport/MIDI cable, or connect pins 12 and 15 of the gameport
with a wire:

  8             1
-------------------
\ o o o o o o o o /
 \ o o o o o o o /
  -|-----|-------
 15|     |     9
   \_____/


HTH
Clemens




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