[LAU] Midi problems with audiophile 2496

[Folderol]

On Tue, 11 Dec 2007 12:04:01 -0700
Bob van der Poel <bob at mellowood.ca> 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