[ALSA - driver 0002023]: midi/joystick port disabled and no way to enable it

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<https://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/alsa-bug/view.php?id=2023> 
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Reported By:                zanonmark
Assigned To:                
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Project:                    ALSA - driver
Issue ID:                   2023
Category:                   PCI - ens1371
Reproducibility:            always
Severity:                   major
Priority:                   normal
Status:                     new
Distribution:               Ubuntu 5.10
Kernel Version:             2.6.12-10
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Date Submitted:             04-16-2006 12:18 CEST
Last Modified:              04-25-2006 10:55 CEST
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Summary:                    midi/joystick port disabled and no way to enable it
Description: 
I have a MIDI keyboard and I'd like to connect it to the midi/joystick port
of the soundcard.

Unfortunately, while PCM works fine and /dev/midi is created, I see no
MIDI communication through /dev/midi.
/proc/asound/AudioPCI/audiopci reports that the joystick port is
disabled.

It is probably a bug on the Ubuntu side (did they forget to compile the
driver correctly?), but I'd like to see a parameter for enabling the
joystick port "on the fly": other drivers have one (e.g.: "joystick=1"),
but snd_ens1371 has not, so:
1) it is not possible to reload (rmmod and modprobe) the driver with that
parameter enabling the midi/joystick port manually,
2) it is not possible to save (alsactl store), modify and reload (alsactl
restore) the soundcard settings, because I see no such parameter to
modify.

So, will you please include such a parameter in the next version of the
driver?

Thanks a lot,

Marco.

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 Raymond - 04-25-06 03:25 
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It seem that your have 3 ALSA cards

Do you enable PNP is BIOS ?

Please post the output of

cat /proc/asound/cards

cat /proc/asound/version

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 zanonmark - 04-25-06 10:55 
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Hi,

my BIOS enables PnP by default: at least, that's what I suppose, since
there's no PnP option,

these are the output you requested:

root@ubuntu:/home/marco# cat /proc/asound/cards
0 [AudioPCI       ]: ENS1371 - Ensoniq AudioPCI
                     Ensoniq AudioPCI ENS1371 at 0xd400, irq 18
1 [V8237          ]: VIA8237 - VIA 8237
                     VIA 8237 with CMI9761 at 0xbc00, irq 22
2 [UART           ]: MPU-401 UART - MPU-401 UART
                     MPU-401 UART at 0x330, irq 5

root@ubuntu:/home/marco# cat /proc/asound/version
Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.9 (Sun May 29
07:31:02 2005 UTC).

Thanks,

MZ

Issue History
Date Modified  Username       Field                    Change              
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04-16-06 12:18 zanonmark      New Issue                                    
04-16-06 12:18 zanonmark      Distribution              => Ubuntu 5.10     
04-16-06 12:18 zanonmark      Kernel Version            => 2.6.12-10       
04-17-06 06:56 rlrevell       Note Added: 0009301                          
04-17-06 07:19 Raymond        Note Added: 0009303                          
04-17-06 19:59 zanonmark      Note Added: 0009319                          
04-18-06 10:54 Raymond        Note Added: 0009328                          
04-18-06 13:18 Raymond        Note Edited: 0009328                         
04-18-06 16:28 Clemens LadischNote Added: 0009338                          
04-19-06 20:05 zanonmark      Note Added: 0009354                          
04-19-06 21:49 rlrevell       Note Added: 0009356                          
04-20-06 03:39 Raymond        Note Added: 0009363                          
04-22-06 13:36 zanonmark      Note Added: 0009433                          
04-24-06 15:47 Raymond        Note Added: 0009452                          
04-24-06 15:57 zanonmark      Note Added: 0009460                          
04-25-06 03:25 Raymond        Note Added: 0009484                          
04-25-06 10:55 zanonmark      Note Added: 0009486                          
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