Thanks for the responses - the reason I didn't give more details is mainly because I don't know where to begin troubleshooting. Firstly let me explain why I need this to work on knoppix. I boot knoppix from a customized image on a compact flash card, so I've been able to add and customize a lot of software, and it runs all sorts of things for me like a webserver, proxy, browser, etc etc. I have a dedicated computer at my house that is always running knoppix (without harddrive) which is always on since there is no harddrive to eventually crash. For my serious audio work I have another computer that runs midi software I've been using since the late 80's (Dr. T's) in an Atari ST emulator, and this system does everything I need for now. Although I've been dabbling with Agnula and ALSA (with no luck yet), I still need to get the knoppix system working with rosegarden2 so that we will have a midi scratchpad to save song ideas with, to be later imported into a different system with rosegarden4 or cakewalk sonar or whatever. OK here are some details on my system. The computer is a gateway P2/266, and I have three soundcards (and a usb interface) that I've tried booting with, but knoppix doesn't autoconfigure the midi ports on any of them, although knoppix is able to identify and configure the audio portion of the soundcards. My hunch is that I should be able to manually get the midi portion to be recognized if I knew what to do. The soundcards I've tried are 1) a digital research ESS1869 ISA card, 2) an AVANCE LOGIC als-100 ISA card, 3) yamaha YMF-724 PCI card, and 4) a midiman midisport 1x1 USB interface. When I run rosegarden2 (that comes included in knoppix), the midi setup has /dev/null as the midi device. If I change it to /dev/midi, or /dev/sequencer, it says "device invalid or busy" when I run sndconfig with the yamaha pci card installed, it says "the yamaha corp ymf-724 (pci) is not currently supported" although I still hear audio through the wav output. when I run sndconfig with the ESS1869 ISA card installed, it says "no PnP or PCI soundcards were found - choose from list" then I choose "ESS1868 audiodrive" from the list, then I get a segmentation fault. I checked my /etc/modules.conf - I don't see an entry "snd-seq-oss", but the top of the file says run "update-modules" instead of editing modules.conf directly. So thats where I am now; I don't know what modules I need loaded (snd-seq-oss?) and I don't know where to find or how to add modules (yet). What can I try next? Any tips will be much appreciated! __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com