[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#787788: Bug#787788: alsa-utils: snd_seq and snd_seq_midi modules no longer loaded

[Forrest Cahoon]

I discovered that on plugging in a USB MIDI device, the module
snd_seq_device is loaded, bringing with it the dependency snd_rawmidi. This
would suffice for apps which use the "raw" MIDI interface, but not the
"sequencer" MIDI interface. I have always used the latter, and until
recently this has worked.

I think that if the snd_seq_midi module could be loaded at the same time,
using the same mechanism as the snd_seq_device module gets loaded, that
would be the optimal solution.


On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 2:16 PM, Elimar Riesebieter <riesebie at lxtec.de>
wrote:

> * Forrest Cahoon <forrest.cahoon at gmail.com> [2015-06-04 21:55 -0500]:
>
> > Package: alsa-utils
> > Version: 1.0.28-1
> > Severity: normal
> >
> > Kernel modules snd_seq and snd_seq_midi are no longer loaded at boot in
> Debian
> > unstable.
> >
> > I apologize if this is the wrong package; this functionality was formerly
> > implemented in alsa-base, but that is a dummy package now. I believe this
> > continued to work for some time after the alsa-base implementation went
> away
> > though, so I think this functionality was maintained in the switch but
> recently
> > became broken.
>
> The mentioned drivers (modules) should be loaded dynamically by kmod
> if required from a midi device.
>
> Please test it.
>
> Elimar
> --
>  Experience is something you don't get until
>   just after you need it!
>
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