[linux-audio-user] Re: External MIDI ports disappeared!

[Russell Hanaghan]

Kevin Cosgrove wrote:

>On 29 November 2004 at 16:35, Russell Hanaghan <hanaghan at starband.net> wrote:
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>>I had my midi ports dissapear after moving from the mm-6 to the
>>mm-7 kernel in MDK 10.0. For whatever reason the seq modules
>>were not being loaded in the kernel. Once I inserted them with
>>modprobe, they were fine.
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>Hmm.  No kernel changes here.  The kernel I'm using is my default
>one in LILO, and I seldom boot anything other.
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>>Your problem is a little different it seems....did you change
>>or alter anything in the time between midi ports showing and
>>midi ports not showing? It seems the right modules are still
>>loaded according to your lsmod...
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>Yes.  I turned off the on-board sound.  I did that in order to
>get the ENS1317 to be recognized at boot-time. 
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How did you do this (MCC?) and why was it necessary?  Is the ENS1317 
your onbaord sound card?

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>modules.conf to get those modules loaded.  I'm 94.81% positive
>that MIDI worked after that change.  But, I turned the on-board
>sound back on anyway.  No change in MIDI behavior.  On-board
>sound is back off now for ease of loading the ENS1317 modules at
>boot-time.
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Now if you were 94.825 % sure I'd could prolly help...but since your 
only 94.81%...  8~)  (Sorry...couldn't resist)

I'd do some Googling on Udev. Lee cites this in a folowing post and 
although I'm a MDK user, I'm not familiar with Udev at all. It's a new 
thingy. And I think 10.1 is the first release to use it in MDK?
Try looking at your modprobe.conf  and seeing if there is anything funky 
going on there as a result of turning off your card the first time; 
"hard drake" can do some odd things at times in detecting new 
hardware...or what it perceives as new.

>I'm using a different monitor and a different PS/2 mouse than I
>was when MIDI worked.  It could be that MIDI was broken before
>making these changes; I can't remember.  But, I do know that MIDI
>hasn't worked ever since changing the monitor and mouse.  The
>mouse is using the same exact driver as before.  The monitor
>changed resolution capability.  The video card is exactly the
>same, as is the video card driver.  I could put it back the way
>it was, but it would be truly surprising to me if that had any
>effect.  Your thoughts?
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I try not to think and it works for me!  Having not thought about 
that...let me not think about this; I doubt your mouse or monitor had 
bumpkiss to do with anything here but I can only be 94.81% sure about 
that. (eh-hem)

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>Kevin
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