[linux-audio-user] Midisport 8x8 - firmware not loading; is my guess

[Brad Fuller]

I asked this question on the ALSA user's list with no response (yet!)
Thought maybe someone on this group may have come across this.

Can't get midisport8x8 to work. I think that the firmware is not loading.
Some notes:
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I have usbfs running (the dir is there), installed the hotplug and 
fxload packages from linux-hotplug and "make install" the 
midisport_firmware-0.5.

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modprobe:
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# --- ALSA configuration
alias char-major-116 snd
alias char-major-14 soundcore
alias snd-card-0 snd-ice1712
alias snd-card-1 snd-usb-audio

# OSS/Free portion
alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0
  # card #1 (Delta 66)
alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss

# card #2 (midipsort 8x8)
alias sound-slot-1 snd-card-1
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cat  /proc/asound/cards shows just my Delta66 card.

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cat /proc/bus/usb/devices  shows just info on the two USB controllers
(as does lsusb)

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lsmod (relevant)"
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Module                  Size  Used by
snd_pcm_oss            54312  0
snd_mixer_oss          18432  2 snd_pcm_oss
realcap                 4240  0
commoncap               4736  1 realcap
snd_seq                50576  8
snd_usb_audio          67680  0
snd_ice1712            63688  5
snd_ice17xx_ak4xxx      4224  1 snd_ice1712
snd_pcm                85128  5 snd_pcm_oss,snd_usb_audio,snd_ice1712
snd_page_alloc         11016  1 snd_pcm
snd_timer              23684  2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd_ak4xxx_adda         5760  2 snd_ice1712,snd_ice17xx_ak4xxx
snd_cs8427             10880  1 snd_ice1712
snd_ac97_codec         63748  1 snd_ice1712
snd_i2c                 5248  2 snd_ice1712,snd_cs8427
snd_mpu401_uart         7680  1 snd_ice1712
snd_rawmidi            23076  2 snd_usb_audio,snd_mpu401_uart
snd_seq_device          8200  2 snd_seq,snd_rawmidi
snd                    54532  23 
snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_seq,snd_usb_audio,snd_ice1712,snd_ice17xx_ak4xxx,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_ak4xxx_adda,snd_cs8427,snd_ac97_codec,snd_i2c,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device 

soundcore               6496  2 snd

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Midisport does not show up anywhere. So, I fear that fxload and/or 
hotplug scripts are not working.

How can I check this? And, how can I enable these to work (if this is 
the problem)?

thanks much!

brad

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