From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Lee Revell Subject: Re: [ALSA - driver 0002219]: snd-mpu401 don't load Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 19:54:27 -0400 Message-ID: <1150847667.2754.199.camel@mindpipe> References: <563a1fc814a40148353e27926695fc8f@bugtrack.alsa-project.org> <4498852C.6060205@keyaccess.nl> <1150846540.2754.195.camel@mindpipe> <449888DA.3090009@keyaccess.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from viper.oldcity.dca.net (viper.oldcity.dca.net [216.158.38.4]) by alsa.jcu.cz (ALSA's E-mail Delivery System) with SMTP id 52B7E175 for ; Wed, 21 Jun 2006 01:54:36 +0200 (MEST) In-Reply-To: <449888DA.3090009@keyaccess.nl> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: alsa-devel-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: alsa-devel-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net To: Rene Herman Cc: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org On Wed, 2006-06-21 at 01:46 +0200, Rene Herman wrote: > Lee Revell wrote: > > >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >>> rlrevell - 06-21-06 00:18 > >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >>> It must be a kernel bug if the port does not appear in /proc/ioports. > > >> Lee, please note that legacy (ISA/LPC, even PnP/ACPI controlled) hw does > >> not ever appear in /proc/ioports without the driver loaded and having > >> done a request_region(). > >> > >> By the way, the missing IRQ is not necesarily a problem. An MPU401 can > >> output MIDI fine without using an IRQ and if his BIOS does not let him > >> assign an IRQ (and Windows does not use one) I guess no IRQ is available > >> for it. > > > > So where's the bug? > > Dunno -- but the snd-mpu401 thing is irrelevant; he said snd-mpu401-uart > _was_ being loaded, and it should then just take care of the port. As to > why it's not doing so... > > Maybe it's under an unknown PnP ID and not being enabled or something > like that. Dunno again. OK, I don't know anything about ancient, pre-PCI hardware, so I guess I can't help. Lee