Re: Recent alsa midi problem

[Erik Steffl <steffl@bigfoot.com>]

Silvan wrote:
> On Wednesday 07 July 2004 12:47 pm, Roy Pluschke wrote:
>
>
> > After a recent dist-upgrade on my "sid" system midi has stopped working. 
>
>
> > Which leads me to believe that snd-emu10k1 and snd-emu10k1-synth have been
> > loaded correctly.

  is it anything similar to my problem? my email to debian-user is not 
in archives (http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2004/07/threads.html) 
yet (archives are up to 2004/07/04, my email is from 2004/07/05 :-) so 
here the quote.

Subject: modprobe -v snd-seq-oss freezes (sb live! kernel 2.6.5)

>   alsa used to work on my system, I didn't change anything I think might be related and suddenly the modprobe -v snd-seq-oss freezes.
>
>   system:
>
>   debian unstable
>   kernel 2.6.5 (with alsa)
>
>   I did not change kernel or modules (I checked and there are no new/changed files under /lib/modules/2.6.5) yet suddenly (after reboot) the oss sequencer cannot be loaded. There are no (related) messages in /var/log/syslog.
>
>   jojda:/home/erik# modprobe -v snd-seq-oss
> insmod /lib/modules/2.6.5/kernel/sound/core/seq/snd-seq.ko
> insmod /lib/modules/2.6.5/kernel/sound/core/seq/snd-seq-midi-event.ko
> insmod /lib/modules/2.6.5/kernel/sound/core/seq/oss/snd-seq-oss.ko
>
>   and the modprobe does not exit, it just sits there. udev creates devices (see below) but there are not usable, e.g.:
>
> jojda:/var/log# sfxload /data/music/soundfont/creative/8MBGMSFX.SF2
> /dev/sequencer: No such device
>
>   udev says (in daemon.log):
>
> Jul  5 01:18:24 jojda udev[2821]: configured rule in '/etc/udev/rules.d/udev.rules' at line 38 applied, 'midiC0D2' becomes 'snd/%k'
> Jul  5 01:18:24 jojda udev[2821]: creating device node '/dev/snd/midiC0D2'
> Jul  5 01:18:25 jojda udev[2791]: configured rule in '/etc/udev/rules.d/udev.rules' at line 36 applied, 'hwC0D2' becomes 'snd/%k'
> Jul  5 01:18:25 jojda udev[2791]: creating device node '/dev/snd/hwC0D2'
> Jul  5 01:18:25 jojda udev[2798]: configured rule in '/etc/udev/rules.d/udev.rules' at line 38 applied, 'midiC0D1' becomes 'snd/%k'
> Jul  5 01:18:25 jojda udev[2798]: creating device node '/dev/snd/midiC0D1'
> Jul  5 01:18:25 jojda udev[2768]: configured rule in '/etc/udev/rules.d/udev.rules' at line 40 applied, 'seq' becomes 'snd/%k'
> Jul  5 01:18:25 jojda udev[2768]: creating device node '/dev/snd/seq'
> Jul  5 01:18:25 jojda udev[2775]: creating device node '/dev/sequencer'
> Jul  5 01:18:25 jojda udev[2782]: creating device node '/dev/sequencer2'
> Jul  5 01:18:25 jojda udev[2805]: creating device node '/dev/amidi'
> Jul  5 01:18:25 jojda udev[2812]: creating device node '/dev/admmidi'
> Jul  5 01:20:22 jojda ntpd[2392]: kernel time sync enabled 0001
>
>   any ideas? TIA
>
>     erik 

	erik