After much travail, and learning more about udev and hotplug than I ever wanted to know, it turned out to be an overloaded USB hub. Sheesh. On Sun, 20 Nov 2005 at 14:45 -0700, Hans Fugal wrote: > My M-Audio Radium 61 is on the fritz again. With the recent changes in > udev, where udev replaces hotplug, I had to do some trickery to get the > firmware to load. When it finally did, it dumped me into a problem I've > seen many times before: the keyboard is recognized as existing by the > ALSA sequencer, but there doesn't seem to be any midi data coming from > it (neither zyn nor aseqview). Unplugging, powering off, etc. yields no > different result. Converseley, when it's working fine I can unplug, > power off, etc. and it always comes back just fine. Well, always except > for the time when it decides to go awol. I've also tried unloading > snd-usb-audio. > > In the past the problem has been resolved by rebooting, but I'm feeling > adventurous and don't particularly need to use the keyboard at the > moment, so I think I'll try to track it down. > > So my question is, where does the problem most likely lie? Is the > firmware perhaps not loading properly for some reason? Is something in > one of the ALSA kernel modules in a strange state? snd-usb-audio, or one > of the other snd- modules, or maybe the *hci modules? > > -- > Hans Fugal ; http://hans.fugal.net > > There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the > right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself. > -- Johann Sebastian Bach -- Hans Fugal ; http://hans.fugal.net There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself. -- Johann Sebastian Bach -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: Digital signature Url : http://music.columbia.edu/pipermail/linux-audio-user/attachments/20051121/a7e02a0b/attachment.bin