[linux-audio-user] ALSA/kernel 2.6.0-test3

[Atte André Jensen]

Hi

I just installed kernel 2.6.0-test3 on my laptop. I looked around in
/proc and saw all kinds of promissing things showing up there.
/var/log/messages even showed my Evolution USB keyboard. Very nice. But
since I'm fairly new to the kernel2.6.0/build-in-ALSA I'm hoping for
some pointers just to get started.

1) I didn't do any configuration of ALSA. Is that needed? If so how do I
do it now that ALSA is compiled in?

2) Where can I expect my devices to show up? For now I have an onboard
soundcard (i810) and the Evolution keyboard. I would like to route the
incomming midi to csound, but later also to either Muse or Rosegarden4.
Is that a matter of having the softsynth or sequencer read from
/dev/midi00 (or somthing like that)? And do I simply tell the sound
generating software to direct its output to the appropriate device, say
/dev/audio?

3) I noticed somethiing jack showing up. Is jack supported? If so, to
what extend?

4) What would be a nice program use for figuring out what midi-events
the knobs on the Evolution sends?

Hope some of you could find the time to either explain me a bit or send
me in direction of some useful documentation. Thanks in advance.
-- 
peace, love & harmony
Atte