Ken Restivo wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 10:39:47PM -0000, arisstotle.54695488@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: >> --- gnome@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: >> 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 ... >>> >> use >> the vendor and product IDs from lsusb and lspci to give each alsa driver an >> index number to make sure that each driver gets put in the same spot each >> boot. >> >> in my modprobe.d/alsa file I have: >> options snd-usb-audio index=1,2,3 >> vid=0x08bb,0x0763,0x0c45 pid=0x2902,0x0199,0x1 >> 7fd > > Are the indexes numbered from 0 or from 1? I thought I'd let people know how things were going with this problem I had (ALSA getting confused over the presence of both my onboard sound and my external USB<>MIDI adaptor. Due to other difficulties with the laptop, I backed up my data and installed Debian Etch, then upgraded that to Lenny/Sid. Since then, the system has had no problems whatsoever with sound. Perhaps some of my difficulties came from the accumulated cruft of a six-year-old Linux installation that had been repeatedly upgraded simply by changing repositories and updating ... -- David gnome@xxxxxxxxxxxxx authenticity, honesty, community _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
