Re: [LAU] ALSA ate my MIDI! (Or Something) - RESOLVED

On Mon, 22 Sep 2008 13:07:07 +0930
Matthew Smith <matt@email-addr-hidden> wrote:

> Quoth Matthew Smith at 2008-09-22 11:07...
> > ALSA is not getting inbound data from the device although it can send
> > OK. The keyboard works as it should under Windows, so I can only guess
> > that there is something wrong with ALSA - either a mis-configuration or
> > a bug - but I don't even know where to start looking.
>
> Want to know what was stopping it working? Do you?
>
> USB hub. Yep, a nasty little bit of $10 hardware.
>
> The keyboard was connected through a USB hub. When I traced through the
> wiring, found this and plugged directly into the computer, it all
> started working.
>
> Any USB gurus like to tell us why that was?
>
> Cheers
>
> M

At a guess - some USB hubs only work at USB 1 (or so I've read)

-- 
Will J Godfrey
http://www.musically.me.uk
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