[linux-audio-user] Midi in Qjackctl

[Paul Davis]

On Mon, 2006-11-20 at 09:37 +0100, Michal Kostrzewa wrote:
> > I have totally forgotten how I did manage to get midi work in Mandriva 
> > 2006, and now I am using Mandriva 2007.  Multimedia kernel with realtime 
> > capabilities is installed, and audio's fine. But when I start qjackctl, 
> > midi stays disabled.
> 
> I got the very same problem after upgrading to mandriva 2007. I
> installed the new version of qjackctl from sources (0.2.21) and it
> improved the midi tab.

more likely the original poster doesn't have the snd-seq kernel module
loaded. lsmod is the diagnostic tool here. for some reason, lots of
distros fail to load this module by default.