On Tue, 11 Dec 2007 12:04:01 -0700 Bob van der Poel <bob@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Looking for some suggestions here. I've had a Maudio 2496 card for a few > years. Works fine for audio, but if I use an the external midi ports it > cause random freezes to my system. Only solution at this point is to hit > the <RESET> button. Not much fun. > > Right now I'm using Ubuntu with the 2.6.20-16-lowlatency kernel and alsa > 1.0.14rc1. What is interesting is that I had the same problems when I > first installed the card and was running a kernel much older and Mandrake. > > Checking some of the alsa mailing lists I found a discussion about this > dating back to 2004 ... so I'm assuming that whatever the problem was > ... it's been fixed? Nope. > > For the past few years I've been using a usb-midi thingie, and that does > work fine. But, I'm running out of USB ports, and I'd like to dedicate > the usb-midi thing to my laptop. So, I tired the 2496 again ... same > problem. > > So, should I just forget about the 2496 and buy yet-another-card? Do > something creative with the usb port situation? Or does someone know a > simple solution for the 2496 problem. > > Thanks. Probably not a lot of help to you but I've been using a 2496 for a couple of years with no problems at all. First on a noname 32bit machine with Mandrake 9.1, now on a 64bit dual core machine built especially for audio with 64studio. -- Will J Godfrey http://www.musically.me.uk _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
