[LAU] MIDI on M-Audio Audiophile 24/96

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On Tue, 15 Apr 2008 19:22:20 -0700
Bob van der Poel <bob at mellowood.ca> wrote:

> 
> Is anyone using MIDI on a M-Audio 24/96 (ICE1712) card? I've had one for 
> several years and keep using my little USB adapter because the card just 
> doesn't work.
> 
> Well, it works fine for audio. And it pretends to work for MIDI as well. 
> But, after playing a few songs it has a tendency to hang my system. 
> Completely. When it hangs the keyboard is frozen; not even the power 
> button the computer responds. I have hit <RESET> and then deal with the 
> "not cleanly shutdown" stuff later.
> 
> When I first got the card I had some discussions on the alsa lists. 
> Nothing really happened with that so I assumed that a new version of 
> alsa and/or linux would solve things. Well, I've gone though more than a 
> few updates and I think this is the 3rd motherboard ... and still the 
> same problem.
> 
> So, anyone with success? Otherwise I'm going to assume that there is a 
> problem with the hardware on the card. But, really it does seem to me to 
> be a driver problem. I'd like to dump the USB interface to free up a port.

I've been running one of these without the slightest problem for some
time. Originally on Mandrake 9.1 (yeah, that long ago) but now on
64studio. It's been on two different mobos.


-- 
Will J Godfrey
http://www.musically.me.uk