[LAU] MIDI keyboard compatability

[david]

Kjetil S. Matheussen wrote:
> 
> 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:

I don't have an /etc/modules.d directory. I have an /etc/modprobe.d 
directory.

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

I found a file called "sound" in the modprobe.d directory. It already 
had an alias setting snd-card-0 to the intel sound driver. So I added an 
alias to it for the snd-usb-audio. Restarting only brought up error 
messages about usb device 2,2, and killed both the USB<>MIDI adapter and 
my external flash card reader. So I decided to go the other way - 
renamed the sound file to something else and restarted again. Then 
everything came up.

So far, audio has been working since then, but won't really know for awhile.

Running GNU/Debian Linux ...

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