Re: [linux-audio-user] Debian packages (was: ALSA with midisports ? _YES, here's how)

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Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] Debian packages (was: ALSA with midisports ? _YES, here's how)
From: Free Ekanayaka (free_AT_centrotemporeale.it)
Date: Fri Sep 06 2002 - 19:49:08 EEST


On 03/09/02 Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano wrote...

>
> We added usb-midi to the hotplug blacklist so that the oss
> driver would not be automatically loaded.
>
blacklist ? is it a file included in the hotplug package ? cant
find it..

> So now we have to whole thing working "right". But Midi inpu
> is gone. And we can't get it back. But we saw it actually
> running :-)

Yes I experienced the same "phantom" input problem: working for a
while and blinking the eye to you and then disappearing :(
I rembemer another post on this also..
AFAIM i solved the problem removing DEVFS support from the kernel.

As I found making this Midisport2x2 work a little painful, I've
done a couple of Debian packages to make life easier:

- ezusbmidi (contains 1x1 and 2x2 firmwares and adds appropriate
  scripts and entries to the hotplug system, allowing you to plug
  and play Midisports)

- usb-midi-source (the OSS kernel driver from http://member.nifty.ne.jp/Breeze/softwares/unix/usbmidi-e.html)

If you want to use snd-usb-midi I've also packaged a recent
CVS snapshot of ALSA modules along with a lowlat kernel.

You can install them putting the line

 deb http://ftp.agnula.org/debian woody demudi

in /etc/apt/sources.list

and running

apt-get update
apt-get install <PACKAGE>

where <PACKAGE> can be:

ezusbmidi
usb-midi-source (if you run a custom kernel)
usb-midi-module-2.4.18-586-demudi
alsa-modules-2.4.18-586-acpi-demudi
kernel-image-2.4.18-586-demudi

(there is also an ACPI patched version of the kernel let me know if
you need it)

Note that these package are almost untested (basically installed
nowhere else than my laptop :))..

Sources are under CVS (http://cvs.agnula.org)

ciao!

Free


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