Hi, I'm trying to get MIDI::Realtime to work. It's an old but simple module. I'm using Perl 5.8.3. and ALSA 1.0.4

Anyways the module seems to install OK, but when I try to run the module's sample code, I get an error: 

"Couldn't write to /dev/sequencer, bad file descriptor
at (....)Realtime.pm line 201.

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So the code block generating the error is: 
sub send_midi_bytes { 
  my $self = shift; 
   
  my $device = $self->midi_device; 
 
  my $stuff = pack('C*',  
                   (map {&SEQ_MIDIPUTC(), 
                         $_,  
                         $device, 
                         0 
                        } 
                    @_ 
                   ) 
                  ); 
 
  my $bytes = syswrite(SEQ_FH, $stuff); 
 
  if (not $bytes) { 
    die("Couldn't write to " 
        . $self->dev  
        . ": $!" 
       ); 
  } 
 
  return $bytes; 
}

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and the sample code I'm trying to run is 
#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;
use MIDI::Realtime;

my $midi = MIDI::Realtime->new(dev=>'/dev/sequencer',
                               midi_device=> 0);

# Play note 47 with maximum velocity on channel 1 
$midi->note(47, 127, 1);

# Now have some fun with randomness 

my @notes      = (37 .. 50);
# use all the channels (with extra drums) 
my @channels   = (1 .. 16, 10, 10, 10);
my @velocities = (70 .. 100);

for (0 .. 127) {
$midi->note($notes[rand(@notes)],
$channels[rand(@channels)],
$velocities[rand(@velocities)]
);

# Wait for a tenth of a second 
select(undef,undef,undef, 0.10);
}

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So anyone know how to get the right file descriptor?
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