On 08/23/11 11:38, Clemens Ladisch wrote:
Kristian Amlie wrote:
idVendor 0x0403 Future Technology Devices International, Ltd idProduct 0xb8d8
There is a kernel driver for this chipset; try "modprobe ftdi_sio product=0xb8d8". This will give you a serial port which you can try to configure for the correct baud rate and see whether MIDI bytes come out. (There is currently no mechanism to make a MIDI device from such a serial port; this would require extending or creating a driver.)
Forgive me, I'm not very well acquainted with how serial drivers work in Linux. The driver did give me a new device, so here is what I tried:
$ setserial /dev/ttyUSB0 spd_normal uart 16550A $ cat /dev/ttyUSB0 > dump
I was not able to get any output from the serial device, however, while cat was running and I was pressing buttons on the instrument, it spontaneously changed program on me (MIDI program change), so *something* goes across the wire.