[linux-audio-user] Problems with Roland PC-300

Hi all - I would appreciate if someone is able to help get my Roland PC-300 midi keyboard controller to work. The short problem seems to me that although the keyboard is being recognised via USB OK, it is not being correctly/completely identified by ALSA. When I plug it in I get in my system log: Nov 28 17:17:57 dukla kernel: usb 3-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3 Nov 28 17:17:58 dukla kernel: midi: probe of 3-2:1.0 failed with error -5 Nov 28 17:17:58 dukla kernel: midi: probe of 3-2:1.1 failed with error -5 Nov 28 17:17:58 dukla kernel: usbmidi: found [ Roland PC-300 ] (0x0582:0x0008), attached: Nov 28 17:17:58 dukla kernel: usbmidi: /dev/midi00: in (ep:81 cid: 0 bufsiz:64) out (ep:01 cid: 0 bufsiz:64) Nov 28 17:17:58 dukla kernel: usbcore: registered new driver midi Nov 28 17:17:58 dukla kernel: usbcore: registered new driver snd-usb-audio Even better, it shows up as a device: me@dukla:~> cat /proc/asound/cards 0 [V8237 ]: VIA8237 - VIA 8237 VIA 8237 with ALC658D at 0xe000, irq 177 1 [PC300 ]: USB-Audio - PC-300 Roland PC-300 at usb-0000:00:10.2-2, full speed And yet I cannot see it as an input ALSA device: me@dukla:~> aconnect -i -o client 0: 'System' [type=kernel] 0 'Timer ' 1 'Announce ' client 62: 'Midi Through' [type=kernel] 0 'Midi Through Port-0' client 128: 'FLUID Synth (10018)' [type=user] 0 'Synth input port (10018:0)' I am running SuSE 10.0 x86_64 (kernel 2.6.13-15) which has ALSA 1.0.9-23. My skills do not run to kernel compiles: the keyboard does work fine under Windows and even cat /dev/midi shows some garbage at each key press. Any/all help or suggestions would be very welcome! Thanks