oh, I discovered today [thanks to my friend Sirio!] that the problem was silly the snd-seq-midi was not loaded, so I wasn't seeing the raw midi device as an alsa sequencer device! modprobe snd-seq-midi solved the problem I don't know why snd-seq-midi always autoloaded with alsa in the past, and now it doesn't autoload anymore bye Federico stan ha scritto: > mescalinum@xxxxxxxxx wrote: >> hi all, >> >> I've got a strange problem today. >> I attach the Edirol UM1-SX, and it doesn't get recognized as an alsa >> sequencer device >> >> I look in /proc/asound/cards and it's listed: >> ... >> 2 [UM1 ]: USB-Audio - UM-1 >> EDIROL UM-1 at usb-0000:00:02.2-3.4, full speed >> ... >> as well as in /proc/asound/devices: >> ... >> 64: [ 2] : control >> 72: [ 2- 0]: raw midi >> ... >> >> >> but aconnect -i / aconnect -o do not show it, and also seq24 (or any >> other alsa seq client) does not see it. >> >> still I am able to play it using the raw device: >> crw-rw---- root audio 116, 72 /dev/snd/midiC2D0 >> >> >> what happened? >> any help is much appreciated >> >> > You need to provide more information in order to get help. And hope > someone has the same card and has overcome the problem. That is the > problem with sound. The problems are usually so specific to the > hardware that the only person who can help you is someone with that > hardware who has solved the problem, or a developer. I am not that > person, but even that person will need more information. > > Did it work at some point but not now? > > Does aplay work? > > What is your version of alsa? > > What is your GNU/Linux distribution? > > Are there any messages in the logs? > > And probably other things. There was a shell script that you could > run that would post its output to a web page and give you a link to > post here when asking for help that was advertised recently (within a > few months) on this list ( or alsa-devel). Perhaps you could use that > to provide useful information? > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. Use priority code J8TL2D2. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user