Re: [Alsa-user] MiaMIDI & alsa in Ubuntu 8.04.1

2008-08-21 Thread Henry W. Peters
Hi Stan & All on the alsa discussion list. /Good news,/ I figured out the problem... Looking in the Synaptic Package Manager in the "All" mode ('unsupported by Ubuntu'), I noticed some alsa files which were /**not**/ installed... most namely: 'alsa firmware' & alsa-firmware loaders.' When I cli

Re: [Alsa-user] MiaMIDI & alsa in Ubuntu 8.04.1

2008-08-16 Thread stan
Henry W. Peters wrote: > Hi Stan, > > I got the script, pasted it into 'text editor' & from there into the > terminal. This is my second time running a script in Linux... (doing the You should just be able to right click in a browser and click on save target asto have the whole script save

Re: [Alsa-user] MiaMIDI & alsa in Ubuntu 8.04.1

2008-08-15 Thread stan
Henry W. Peters wrote: > Hi Stan, > > Thanks for re-reply... & information. I will check out the leads. > One note; MiaMIDI is a PCI card, not a USB. I tried some USB audio/midi > devices & couldn't get them to work with my setup in Windows XP, the MM > card works well & is fairly flexible & hi

Re: [Alsa-user] MiaMIDI & alsa in Ubuntu 8.04.1

2008-08-15 Thread Henry W. Peters
Hi Stan, Thanks for re-reply... & information. I will check out the leads. One note; MiaMIDI is a PCI card, not a USB. I tried some USB audio/midi devices & couldn't get them to work with my setup in Windows XP, the MM card works well & is fairly flexible & hi res for an inexpensive audio/mi

Re: [Alsa-user] MiaMIDI & alsa in Ubuntu 8.04.1

2008-08-15 Thread stan
Henry W. Peters wrote: > Hi Stan, > > Thanks for reply. > > Yes, I have gone to the Echo Audio web site & support before I came to > this discussion list. I asked them (then) about drivers for Linux... > they pointed me to the alsa users wiki. No, I didn't ask about > firmware... & now, I thi

Re: [Alsa-user] MiaMIDI & alsa in Ubuntu 8.04.1

2008-08-14 Thread stan
Henry W. Peters wrote: ... > not loading (?)). I am contemplating installing Kubuntu as well (?). I > have been unable (so far) to find any firmware updates for this card. Have you gone to the website of the vendor of the card and asked them about firmware for linux? --

[Alsa-user] MiaMIDI & alsa in Ubuntu 8.04.1

2008-08-14 Thread Henry W. Peters
OK, this is another a pig-in-a poke... but I am still working to get my MiaMIDI sound card working in Ubuntu 8.04.1 (apparently the drivers are not loading (?)). I am contemplating installing Kubuntu as well (?). I have been unable (so far) to find any firmware updates for this card. What I