Re: [linux-audio-user] Miditech Midistudio-2 and Linux

From: Hector Centeno <h.centeno@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Thu Jul 21 2005 - 16:34:51 EEST

Hector Centeno wrote:

> Clemens Ladisch wrote:
>
>> Hector Centeno wrote:
>>
>>
>>>>> I was wondering if there is anyone here successfully using a Miditech
>>>>> Midistudio-2 USB keyboard.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>
>> Please make sure you're using ALSA 1.0.9, then add the following at
>> the end of usb/usbquirks.h and recompile the driver:
>>
>> /* -------------------------------------- */
>>
>> {
>> USB_DEVICE(0x7104, 0x2202),
>> .driver_info = (unsigned long) & (const snd_usb_audio_quirk_t) {
>> .vendor_name = "Miditech",
>> .product_name = "Midistudio-2 (testing)",
>> .ifnum = 0,
>> .type = QUIRK_MIDI_MOTU
>> }
>> },
>>
>> /* -------------------------------------- */
>>
>> This will allow the driver to load; it will create two MIDI ports.
>> However, it's quite possible that this will not use the correct
>> protcol to talk with the keyboard.
>>
>> Please show what is output when you're pressing some keys while
>> running "amidi -a -d -p portname" (see "amidi -l" for a list of
>> ports).
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>> Clemens
>>
>>
>>
> Thanks a lot for this advice. I finally got some time to try it but I
> don't want to mess my Planet CCRMA installation. What should I do to
> recompile alsa? I downloaded the alsa-driver source from the alsa site
> and modified the file usbquirks.h located inside the folder
> alsa-kernel/usb. I did configure and make and everything seems ready
> for installation. Should I just install on top of the CCRMA
> alsa-driver? Both are version 1.0.9 but the installed one has a "b" at
> the end (1.0.9b-1.rhfc3.ccrma). If I try to uninstall the alsa-driver
> using synaptic it warns about uninstalling a very long list of
> applications that depend on it.
>
> Sorry for this, but I'm still a newby on Linux.
>
> cheers,
>
> Hector
>
sorry... both have a "b", I was wrong. But still my question remains:
should I just install on top of the installed alsa-driver after
compiling it?

thanks

hector
Received on Thu Jul 21 20:15:06 2005

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