How to autoconfigure MIDI in liveCD?

How to autoconfigure MIDI in liveCD?

[airplays55]

Knoppix 3.8 liveCD (which includes ALSA 1.0.8) loads
the audio but not the midi portion of the soundcard. 
In order to get the midi modules loaded (snd-seq-midi
etc.), I have to manually run "alsaconf", which
requires human intervention for me to accept the
soundcard it found by probing, and also accepting the
choice for alsaconf to modify /etc/modprobe.d/sound
and /etc/modprobe.conf.

I need to find out specifically what knoppix can do
differently for midi to be autoconfigured without
requiring human intervention.

Is there a completely automated script that
accomplishes what "alsaconf" does?

If this is possible, I plan to encourage the Klaus
Knopper to include midi auto-configuration in future
knoppix versions.  Thanks.



		
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Re: How to autoconfigure MIDI in liveCD?

[Lee Revell]

On Wed, 2005-05-18 at 11:30 -0700, airplays55@yahoo.com wrote:
> Knoppix 3.8 liveCD (which includes ALSA 1.0.8) loads
> the audio but not the midi portion of the soundcard. 
> In order to get the midi modules loaded (snd-seq-midi
> etc.), I have to manually run "alsaconf", which
> requires human intervention for me to accept the
> soundcard it found by probing, and also accepting the
> choice for alsaconf to modify /etc/modprobe.d/sound
> and /etc/modprobe.conf.

Before you think too hard, try the newest ALSA (1.0.9-rc3).  There was
some kind of bug in 1.0.8 where snd-seq-midi had to be loaded manually.

Lee



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Re: How to autoconfigure MIDI in liveCD?

[Thierry Vignaud]

Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com> writes:

> > Knoppix 3.8 liveCD (which includes ALSA 1.0.8) loads
> > the audio but not the midi portion of the soundcard. 
> > In order to get the midi modules loaded (snd-seq-midi
> > etc.), I have to manually run "alsaconf", which
> > requires human intervention for me to accept the
> > soundcard it found by probing, and also accepting the
> > choice for alsaconf to modify /etc/modprobe.d/sound
> > and /etc/modprobe.conf.
> 
> Before you think too hard, try the newest ALSA (1.0.9-rc3).  There
> was some kind of bug in 1.0.8 where snd-seq-midi had to be loaded
> manually.

does the above means that drivers for card with a midi chip will
trigger the loading of appropriate midi sub modules?



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Re: How to autoconfigure MIDI in liveCD?

[Lee Revell]

On Thu, 2005-05-19 at 19:20 +0200, Thierry Vignaud wrote:
> Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com> writes:
> 
> > > Knoppix 3.8 liveCD (which includes ALSA 1.0.8) loads
> > > the audio but not the midi portion of the soundcard. 
> > > In order to get the midi modules loaded (snd-seq-midi
> > > etc.), I have to manually run "alsaconf", which
> > > requires human intervention for me to accept the
> > > soundcard it found by probing, and also accepting the
> > > choice for alsaconf to modify /etc/modprobe.d/sound
> > > and /etc/modprobe.conf.
> > 
> > Before you think too hard, try the newest ALSA (1.0.9-rc3).  There
> > was some kind of bug in 1.0.8 where snd-seq-midi had to be loaded
> > manually.
> 
> does the above means that drivers for card with a midi chip will
> trigger the loading of appropriate midi sub modules?
> 

Yes, that was the nature of the bug IIRC.

Lee



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