Kjetil S. Matheussen wrote: > > david: >> David Griffith wrote: >>> On Sun, 4 Nov 2007, ANDERSON GREGORY wrote: >>> >>>> I am looking to buy a MIDI keyboard controller but I am >>>> having trouble coming up with a site that has >>>> compatibility info on it. Could someone point me in the >>>> right direction? >>> >>> Any MIDI keyboard will work as long as you have a MIDI interface that >>> works. Trickiness comes into play with USB/MIDI keyboards. Those are >>> essentially USB/MIDI interfaces tucked into a keyboard. As >>> previously-discussed here, USB/MIDI devices may or may not work with >>> Linux. Roland/Edirol and Korg are two brands known to work. >> >> When ALSA isn't fighting over which sound card to load in which order on >> my system, the E-MU Xmidi1x1 works just fine. > > In your modules settings file (mine is /etc/modules.d/alsa), set: I don't have an /etc/modules.d directory. I have an /etc/modprobe.d directory. > alias snd-card-0 snd-<card1> > alias snd-card-1 snd-<card2> > etc. I found a file called "sound" in the modprobe.d directory. It already had an alias setting snd-card-0 to the intel sound driver. So I added an alias to it for the snd-usb-audio. Restarting only brought up error messages about usb device 2,2, and killed both the USB<>MIDI adapter and my external flash card reader. So I decided to go the other way - renamed the sound file to something else and restarted again. Then everything came up. So far, audio has been working since then, but won't really know for awhile. Running GNU/Debian Linux ... -- David gnome@xxxxxxxxxxxxx authenticity, honesty, community _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user