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Subject: Re: USB MIDI controllers don't work before loading snd-seq manually
To: Konstantin Kulikov <k.kulikov2@gmail.com>
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Konstantin, thanks for the suggestion. Always loading a module at boot 
is a usable workaround for me personally, and I hope it will help other 
newcomers running into the same issue. I wonder though, what prevents 
the module from loading automatically when the device is connected. I 
see a line about snd/seq in /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/50-udev-default.rules. 
Is there a lazy-loading mechanism for the ALSA sequencer in 
distributions with upstream udev, but not in Alpine with eudev? I'll add 
a note to the ALSA page on the wiki for now.