IIRC, old SoundBlasters use a different (than mpu) method for talking to the MIDI
port, so you get a different MIDI attachment.

    -- Lennart

Andrew Brown wrote:

> i've determined that, on this crappy old laptop (half dead hinote), if
> i add either of
>
> mpu*    at isa? port 0x330 irq 9        # MPU401 or compatible card
> mpu*    at sb?
>
> to the kernel config, i get instead
>
> midi0 at sb0: SB MIDI UART
>
> is that right?  i would have expected to see an mpu detected, and
> instead a get a new midi device.  that make three for this machine.  :)
>
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