Giuseppe Zompatori wrote: > modprobe mpu_port pnp=1 "pnp=1" is the default. To manually specify port and interrupt values, you have to use "pnp=0". > The problem in my case is it doesn't work... > Onboard MPU401 has never worked too well for me in the latest kernels, > tested on a an asus nforce2 based MB and on an ASRock "el-cheapo" > SIS7012 based MB, both of them using the intel8x0 sound module. The intel8x0 modules has nothing to do with MIDI. > It doesn't work in that if I try playing a midi file the kernel > complains on syslog about weird erros. "weird" doesn't tell me much, but it's probably because of a wrong port address. > The midi port worked for some random amount of time untill it > completely locked my box. This were problems with the RTC used for MIDI playback timing (not related to any particular driver). Please try the latest ALSA drivers. HTH Clemens