External MIDI in 2.1.86

Jason Burrell (jburrell@crl5.crl.com)
17 Feb 1998 19:28:29 +0100


Back in 2.1.64 I could get my SoundBlaster AWE32 external MIDI port to
work by simply loading the sound driver after setting the appropriate
configuration settings in the kernel configuration.

After the sound driver was fragmented into different modules, however, the
external MIDI doesn't seem supported. I install the sound driver, install
the sb driver specifying the settings with modprobe, and the external MIDI
still doesn't show up. I stopped upgrading because of this, but eventually
ran into one too many problems and decided to go to 2.1.86.

The external MIDI used to show up under MIDI devices in /dev/sndstat.

(root@crl5) <~>$ more /dev/sndstat
e: Driver loaded as a module
Kernel: Linux crl5 2.1.86 #1 Sun Feb 15 22:26:41 CST 1998 i586
Config options: 0

Installed drivers:

Card config:

Audio devices:
0: Sound Blaster 16 (4.13)

Synth devices:

Midi devices:

Timers:
0: System clock

Mixers:
0: Sound Blaster

(root@crl5) <~>$ ls -l /lib/modules/2.1.86/misc
total 286
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2308 Feb 15 21:08 adlib_card.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9540 Feb 15 21:06 lp.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5840 Feb 15 21:06 nvram.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 15604 Feb 15 21:08 opl3.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12631 Feb 15 21:08 parport.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9776 Feb 15 21:08 parport_pc.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5316 Feb 15 21:10 parport_probe.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 37472 Feb 15 21:09 sb.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3316 Feb 15 21:06 softdog.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 92507 Feb 15 21:09 sound.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 75413 Feb 15 21:18 sunrpc.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10484 Feb 15 21:08 uart401.o

I have to be missing something simple here, but I can't seem to figure out
what it is. Any ideas?

Apologies if this has already been hashed on the list. I had a list outage
for a while.

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