Actually, now that I have reinstalled the src.rpm package of hotplug 8_26_2002 (from sourceforge), I do get both the 2 midi ports and audio (crashes still occur). I've now discovered two more interesting issues:
1) Upon booting and installing the midisport 2x2 for the first time (regardless whether that is at boot time or afterwards), I get 2 midi ports and everything is ok. If I then disconnect and reconnect it, everything is still ok, but now I only have 1 midi port. Seems like only the first time is a charm. This is no biggie, since I've overcome the major problems, but still may point to some kind of a bug in (I presume) Alsa. 2) The other rather important observation is that the crash (kernel oops) occurs, when I omit the /sbin/modprobe -r snd-usb-midi line from the Jaroslav's script as you have suggested (this has happened several times and every time I comment it out, the thing crashes with the same interrupt handler async oops, while the system remains rock solid regardless of numbers of reconnects when the thing is not commented out). It makes me wonder whether that call to remove a module that does not exist gives the kernel enough time to clean up something usb-related on its side before invoking the removal of the module, therefore avoiding the oops (the second line /sbin/modprobe -r snd-usb-audio). It would be perhaps a good idea to do a small sleep command there and see whether that would work as well as the above-mentioned removal of the non-existent module (but I don't know how to put one there since I am not that good with shell scripts -- any ideas are welcome though). Still, the issue of reconnect giving you only 1 midi port remains. :-) Note: mandrake-expert developers, if you need the script and config e-mailed in order to have Mandrake 9.0 auto-detect alsasound devices and dynamically load them, please contact me and I'll e-mail them to ya. Ico ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-devel
