20 Feb
2006
20 Feb
'06
8:04 a.m.
On Mon, 20 Feb 2006 09:56:19 +0100
Clemens Ladisch <clemens(a)ladisch.de> wrote:
Oh - bummer...
Thanks Clemens. I feared as much but hoped this wouldn't be the case.
Seems I have lucked out twice - my motherboard is an Asus A7N8X-X with the
built in midi interface but no external midi connection...
I guess I will have to start saving the pennies for a suitable replacement
sound card with working external midi interface.
I don't suppose anybody can recommend a cheap card?
Cheers
Adrian
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Adrian Blockley wrote:
produces no
output or error message but the following is printed
using dmesg:
cmd: 0xff failed at 0x330 (status = 0xff, data = 0xff)
This means the MIDI port wasn't initialized correctly.
It seems C-Media changed their latest chip revisions in some
incompatible way. My guess is that the midi i/o port address is
wrong. Now i don't
understand a great deal about PCI but my guess is that the midi i/o
port address on the sound card probably isn't 0x330 (please note I've
also tried 300, 310 and 320).
The driver configures the card to use the port address that was
specified by the user. Well, it tries to.
I've tried
using the Windows device manager to find out what address
port I should be using but i can only find the address of the sound
card and not the mpu401.
The card shadows the MIDI port registers in its main PCI address space,
but the instructions in C-Media's so-called datasheet don't work.
I'd recommend to get another card. Any other card.