Thanks to all that replied, very helpful.<br><br>To Robert: I used to use demudi and had problems getting muse to work (it LOVED to crash for some reason), but I might go back to a debian distro if jacklab is hard to use.<br>

<br>Well, I anticipated configuration issues with the UART, but there weren&#39;t any. It was fairly straightforward actually. I made sure ACPI and MIDI (for UART) were both enabled in BIOS and went about my business. The joystick port cable is passive, btw.<br>
<br>The UART showed up in RG just fine. Now I have RG using a softsynth on my audiophile card and the UART &quot;playing&quot; another computer -- a mac actually. I have a G4 running os x 10.4 and cubase LE. I tend to think (perhaps misguidedly) that the mac will make a better VST host so that will work for now.<br>
<br>My original intention was to have the mac using MMC to control the jacklab box, but I have yet to get that working....getting cubase to work as a master is confusing me, but that&#39;s a whole other story!<br><br>I&#39;ll check the list and post regarding future issues specific to jacklab and friends. Thanks again.<br>