[Alsa-user] Cannot load snd-serial-u16550

[Juan <jl...@al...>]

Hi, 

I'm trying to load snd-serial-u16550 (kernel 2.6.10-5-k7 on Ubuntu Linux) to 
play my Roland JV-1010 connected to COM2 via the "To-Host" interface.   Per 
the kernel documentation [1], I'm doing things like this:  

setserial /dev/ttyS1 uart none         
modprobe snd-serial-u16550  port=0x2f8 irq=3

just to get this output:

FATAL: Error inserting snd_serial_u16550 
(/lib/modules/2.6.10-5-k7/kernel/sound/drivers/snd-serial-u16550.ko): No such 
device
FATAL: Error running install command for snd_serial_u16550

dmesg | tail gives this:

no UART detected at 0x1
serial midi soundcard not found or device busy

It seems to me the module is not getting the port parameters and thus is 
failing. I have read the list archives and found that some other folk had the 
same problem because he was not issuing the 'setserial' command. This is not 
my case.

What is driving me nuts is that I got it working under Fedora Core 2 quite 
easily, with a 2.4.xx series kernel.

Any help appreciated.