[linux-audio-user] Newbie Linux user Struggling with MIDI

Hello, I am a fairly new Linux user - I like what I see so far, but having great diffculties with MIDI. Specs: Ubuntu Linux 5.04 KDE Compaq Pressario 333 mhz (..I know.....) 256 RAM (again...I know...old machine) SoundCard - Turtle Beach Santa Cruz 5.1 (manufacturer tells me it does indeed have an onboard hardware synth) Roland Sound Canvas SC-88 hooked up via joystick port Audio such as MP3 works fine through such things as Alsaplayer and Xine. KDE's KInfoCenter / Sound tells me: Sound Driver:3.8.1a-980706(ALSA v1.06 emulation code) Kernal: Linux PhilLinx 2.6.10-5-386#1 and so forth Config options:0 Installed Drivers: Type 10:ALSA emulation Card Config: Sound Fusion CS46xx at 0x41300000/0x41200000,irq 11 Audio devices:0:CS46XX(DUPLEX) Synth devices: NOT ENABLED Midi devices: 0:CS46XX Timers: 7:system timer Mixers: 0:Cirrus Logic CS4297A rev 4,Cirr lsmod | grep snd tells me: snd_emu10k1_synth 6656 0 snd_emu10k1 81668 1 snd_emu10k1_synth snd_emux_synth 33280 1 snd_emu10k1_synth snd_seq_virmidi 7296 1 snd_emux_synth snd_seq_midi_emul 7424 1 snd_emux_synth snd_hwdep 9220 2 snd_emu10k1,snd_emux_synth snd_util_mem 4608 2 snd_emu10k1,snd_emux_synth snd_cs46xx 80328 0 snd_ac97_codec 64608 2 snd_emu10k1,snd_cs46xx snd_pcm_oss 47652 0 snd_mixer_oss 16768 1 snd_pcm_oss snd_pcm 84872 4 snd_emu10k1,snd_cs46xx,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_os s snd_page_alloc 9604 3 snd_emu10k1,snd_cs46xx,snd_pcm gameport 4608 2 analog,snd_cs46xx snd_seq_midi 8224 0 snd_rawmidi 22944 4 snd_emu10k1,snd_seq_virmidi,snd_cs46xx,snd_seq_m idi snd_seq_oss 30080 0 snd_seq_midi_event 7424 3 snd_seq_virmidi,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_oss snd_seq 46992 8 snd_emux_synth,snd_seq_virmidi,snd_seq_midi_emul ,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event snd_timer 23300 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq snd_seq_device 8332 7 snd_emu10k1_synth,snd_emu10k1,snd_emux_synth,snd _seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq snd 50276 14 snd_emu10k1,snd_emux_synth,snd_seq_virmidi,snd_ hwdep,snd_cs46xx,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_rawmidi,sn d_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device soundcore 9824 1 snd Any ideas if ALSA simply cannot recognize this soundcard or I simply have something out of whack? thanks, PhilJ