[LAU] Does my audio card has a hardware MIDI synthesizer?

[Danni Coy]

You generally won't need one anyways.. You probably just need to load the
kernel module snd-seq
and make sure that it is loaded at startup.

On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 9:49 PM, Cedric Roux <sed at free.fr> wrote:

> Hi people from LAU,
>
> I have a problem.
> Maybe you can help me.
> I searched the web, but couldn't find the info.
> So the question is in the title.
>
> Here is what I know about the card (the computer
> is at work, I don't have full specs).
>
> It's a Dell, Intel CPU, standard stuff I guess.
> The audio card is on the PCI bus.
> Here is what lspci has to say about that.
> ----
> 00:1b.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD
> Audio Controller [8086:293e] (rev 02)
>        Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:0214]
>        Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr-
> Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- DisINTx-
>        Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort-
> <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
>        Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
>        Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 16
>        Region 0: Memory at fdffc000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
>        Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
>                Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=55mA
> PME(D0+,D1-,D2-,D3hot+,D3cold+)
>                Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
>        Capabilities: [60] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit+
> Queue=0/0 Enable-
>                Address: 0000000000000000  Data: 0000
>        Capabilities: [70] Express (v1) Root Complex Integrated Endpoint,
> MSI 00
>                DevCap: MaxPayload 128 bytes, PhantFunc 0, Latency L0s
> <64ns, L1 <1us
>                        ExtTag- RBE- FLReset+
>                DevCtl: Report errors: Correctable- Non-Fatal- Fatal-
> Unsupported-
>                        RlxdOrd- ExtTag- PhantFunc- AuxPwr- NoSnoop+
>                        MaxPayload 128 bytes, MaxReadReq 128 bytes
>                DevSta: CorrErr- UncorrErr- FatalErr- UnsuppReq- AuxPwr+
> TransPend-
>                LnkCap: Port #0, Speed unknown, Width x0, ASPM unknown,
> Latency L0 <64ns, L1 <1us
>                        ClockPM- Suprise- LLActRep- BwNot-
>                LnkCtl: ASPM Disabled; Disabled- Retrain- CommClk-
>                        ExtSynch- ClockPM- AutWidDis- BWInt- AutBWInt-
>                LnkSta: Speed unknown, Width x0, TrErr- Train- SlotClk-
> DLActive- BWMgmt- ABWMgmt-
>        Capabilities: [100] Virtual Channel <?>
>        Capabilities: [130] Root Complex Link <?>
>        Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel
>        Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel
> ----
> I bet the important stuff is the 1028:0214 PCI number, right?
>
> Alsa shows no MIDI device whatsoever (there is a 'Midi Through'
> stuff, but that does not count, right?).
>
> So I'm stuck here.
> Any help is welcome.
> Yeah, timidity works fine, that's not the point. I want
> to use the hardware synthesizer (if there is one).
>
> Thanks,
> Cédric.
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