[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:              05-13-2006 05:19 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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 zanonmark - 05-12-06 19:44 
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of course I could disable it, but my intention is to try to make it usable
someday :) I'd just like to buy a midi replicator when I have some time...
:)

as per the card model, lspci -vvn reports:

0000:00:0a.0 0401: 1274:1371 (rev 02)
        Subsystem: 1274:1371
        Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop-
ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
        Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=slow >TAbort-
<TAbort+ <MAbort+ >SERR- <PERR-
        Latency: 32 (3000ns min, 32000ns max)
        Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 18
        Region 0: I/O ports at d400 [size=64]
        Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 1
                Flags: PMEClk- DSI+ D1- D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA
PME(D0+,D1-,D2+,D3hot+,D3cold-)
                Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-

while lspci -v reports:

0000:00:0a.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq ES1371 [AudioPCI-97]
(rev 02)
        Subsystem: Ensoniq Creative Sound Blaster AudioPCI64V,
AudioPCI128
        Flags: bus master, slow devsel, latency 32, IRQ 18
        I/O ports at d400 [size=64]
        Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 1

thanks,

MZ

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 Raymond - 05-13-06 05:19 
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amidi -d -p hw:0,0 should see the keyboard and receives messages from it

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=113933

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                          
04-26-06 10:54 Raymond        Note Added: 0009505                          
04-26-06 19:51 zanonmark      Note Added: 0009522                          
05-01-06 10:38 Raymond        Note Added: 0009553                          
05-07-06 13:33 zanonmark      Note Added: 0009641                          
05-12-06 03:58 Raymond        Note Added: 0009771                          
05-12-06 19:44 zanonmark      Note Added: 0009788                          
05-13-06 05:19 Raymond        Note Added: 0009794                          
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