From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3.4; Linux) KHTML/3.4.2 (like Gecko) Description of problem: While sound in general works, I can't play midi's. The only warning message I can see is dmesg dmesg | grep snd snd_ens1371: Unknown parameter `' aplaymidi -l Port Client name Port name 62:0 Midi Through Midi Through Port-0 64:0 ES1371 ES1371 aplay -l **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices **** card 0: AudioPCI [Ensoniq AudioPCI], device 0: ES1371/1 [ES1371 DAC2/ADC] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 card 0: AudioPCI [Ensoniq AudioPCI], device 1: ES1371/2 [ES1371 DAC1] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): alsa-utils-1.0.9rf-2.FC4 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. aplaymidi -p 62:0 my.mid 2. no errors, just dead quiet... ... ... 3. Additional info:
00:0a.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq 5880 AudioPCI (rev 02) Subsystem: Ensoniq Creative SoundBlaster AudioPCI 128 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 5 Region 0: I/O ports at 8400 [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-
This card doesn't support HW midi. see http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/doc-php/template.php?company=Ensoniq&card=.&chip=ES1371%2C+ES1372%2C+ES1373%2C+CT5880+%28ES1373%29&module=ens1371