Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] ALSA with midisports ? _YES, here's how
From: Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano (nando_AT_ccrma.Stanford.EDU)
Date: Mon Sep 02 2002 - 03:59:31 EEST
> > Has anyone been able to make the midiman midisport 1x1 midi interface with
> > alsa and using a script with fxload to load its firmware with the files
> > ezusbmidi1x1.ihx and ezusbmidi2x2.ihx and a modified
> > /etc/hotplug/usb.usermap.
> >
> > Although we are able to load the firmware the midisport is subsequently
> > disconnected. The snd-usb-midi ALSA module loads OK.
> >
> > This is tail -f /var/log/messages
> >
> > Sep 1 10:30:49 localhost kernel: hub.c: USB new device connect on bus1/1,
> > assigned device number 9
> > Sep 1 10:30:49 localhost kernel: usb.c: USB device 9 (vend/prod
> > 0x763/0x1001) is not claimed by any active driver.
> > Sep 1 10:30:53 localhost /etc/hotplug/usb.agent: ... no modules for USB
> > product 763/1001/1
> >
> > Thank you
> >
> > -- Juan Reyes
>
> Yeah, the MidiSport 2x2 works perfectly, and I understand the 1x1 does as
> well. Here is the MidiSport ID section at www.linux-usb.org:
>
> 0763 Midiman
> 1001 Midisport 2x2
> 1010 Midisport 1x1
> 1020 Midisport 4x4
> 1030 Midisport 8x8
>
> Others asked about these interfaces as well. You will need to grab the
> Exusb2131 tarball and compile/install it. Then executing the following
> should have the lights signal your success:
>
> modprobe ezusb2131 vendor_id=0x763 product_id=0x1001
>
> ezusbmidi2x2.ihx > /proc/ezusb/dev0
>
> modprobe usb-midi
>
> Running MusE, for example will allow you to out/in to the raw device
> /dev/midi. Alsa 0.9.0rc3 has full support,
We tried that with Juan (and many other things :-) We loaded the firmware
into Juan's 1x1 in two different ways, with the ezusb2131 software and
then with fxload and a script that is triggered by hotplugging. Both
attempts end up in the same way, the firmware loads fine, the device
disconnects but it never reconects again (loading the usb-midi module,
either oss or alsa, does nothing). All three LEDs in the interface stay on
and none of them blink (as the documentation says).
I just took a look at the Midiman web site and the interface Juan has does
_not_ look like the one in the 1x1 manual, it does not have MIDI
connectors in it, just cables that end in female MIDI connectors, and it
looks smaller.
My guess is that this particular Midiman 1x1 interface uses slightly
different hardware and is not compatible with the custom firmware...
We also tried with a Quattro, but the built in interface was not
recognized either (but we did not try as hard :-)
-- Fernando
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