From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Rene Herman Subject: Re: [ALSA - driver 0002219]: snd-mpu401 don't load Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 01:46:34 +0200 Message-ID: <449888DA.3090009@keyaccess.nl> References: <563a1fc814a40148353e27926695fc8f@bugtrack.alsa-project.org> <4498852C.6060205@keyaccess.nl> <1150846540.2754.195.camel@mindpipe> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from smtpq3.tilbu1.nb.home.nl (smtpq3.tilbu1.nb.home.nl [213.51.146.202]) by alsa.jcu.cz (ALSA's E-mail Delivery System) with ESMTP id 6480D16F for ; Wed, 21 Jun 2006 01:45:17 +0200 (MEST) In-Reply-To: <1150846540.2754.195.camel@mindpipe> 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: Lee Revell Cc: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org 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. Rene.