[LAU] MIDI keyboard compatability

[Kjetil S. Matheussen]

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:

alias snd-card-0 snd-<card1>
alias snd-card-1 snd-<card2>
etc.