[PlanetCCRMA] Enabling MIDI on second sound card

[Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano]

>    I don't particularly care about audio on the AP2496 as the box has a
> Hammerfall, so I'd be happiest to leave that turned off if possible.
> 
>    How can I enable the MIDI ports on the card CORRECTLY? What drivers
> would I load in modules.conf to get just MIDI. (If possible...) The
> current contents of this file are:
> 
> alias eth0 3c59x
> alias usb-controller usb-uhci
> # -- BEGIN: Generated by ALSACONF, do not edit. --
> # -- ALSACONF verion 0.9.0 --
> alias char-major-116 snd
> alias snd-card-0 snd-rme9652
> alias char-major-14 soundcore
> alias sound-slot-0 snd-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
> options snd major=116 cards_limit=1
> options snd-rme9652 index=0
> # -- END: Generated by ALSACONF, do not edit. --
> # -- Keep modules from being autocleaned
> add options -k snd-card-0
> 
> I tried 
> 
> modprobe snd-ice1712
> 
> which loaded. At this point I appear to have both sound and MIDI, as per
> lsmod and aconnect, but I did not testing.

This would be a tentative modules.conf for two cards:

alias char-major-116 snd
alias snd-card-0 snd-rme9652
alias snd-card-1 snd-ice1712
# --- OSS compatibility
alias char-major-14 soundcore
alias sound-slot-0 snd-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
alias sound-service-1-0 snd-mixer-oss
alias sound-service-1-3 snd-pcm-oss
alias sound-service-1-12 snd-pcm-oss
# --- Options
options snd major=116 cards_limit=2
options snd-rme9652 index=0
options snd-ice1712 index=1
# --- Keep modules from being autocleaned
add options -k snd-card-0
add options -k snd-card-1

you were missing the oss emulation part, which may or may not be
relevant depending on the software you are trying to use. 

-- Fernando