On Friday 30 December 2005 23:25, S. Massy wrote:

> ALSA lib rawmidi.c:283:(snd_rawmidi_open_noupdate) Unknown RawMidi 0
> ALSA: error opening MIDI input device
>  *** error opening MIDI in device: -1 (Unknown MIDI error)
> ---
> That's with a command line like:
> $ csound --sched -d -+rtaudio=alsa -odac -+rtmidi=alsa -M0 csound5/examples/CsoundMidi.csd
> 
> I am running csound5 from CVS (updated today).
> Any Idea what might be the problem here?

ALSA MIDI devices are selected by name and not number. So, you
need to use an option like -M hw:CARD,DEVICE where CARD and
DEVICE are the card and device numbers (e.g. -M hw:1,0).