Finally I got my externel midi device working with my via 8233 chipset. Thanks very much for all your help.
The only method that worked with me was the following: 1. Recompiling alsa with snd-via82xx and(!) snd-mpu401 driver 2. modifiying the alsa-part in the modules.conf. This is excactly the way described in the documentation supplied by the alsa-homepage. The only difference is that I added "index=x" in the options line (as suggested by Clemens Ladisch) and this seems to make it running (or whatever else I don't know....) This is the alsa-part of my modules.conf which may be of help for others: ==================================================== ## ALSA portion alias char-major-116 snd alias snd-card-0 snd-via82xx alias snd-card-1 snd-mpu401 ## module options should go here options snd-card-0 index=0 port=0x400 irq=11 options snd-card-1 index=1 port=0x330 irq=10 ## OSS/Free portion alias char-major-14 soundcore alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0 alias sound-slot-1 snd-card-1 ## card #0 alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss ## card #1 alias sound-service-1-0 snd-mixer-oss alias sound-service-1-1 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-1-3 snd-pcm-oss alias sound-service-1-8 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-1-12 snd-pcm-oss ## gentoo recommends to use this alias /dev/mixer snd-mixer-oss alias /dev/dsp snd-pcm-oss alias /dev/midi snd-seq-oss options snd cards_limit=2 ================================================= Mit schönen Grüßen von Yahoo! Mail - http://mail.yahoo.de ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user