[linux-audio-user] alsa /dev/sequencer oss compatability

Hi all. I have an on motherboard es1371 (which appears to be working fine, although I'm not using it for audio). Can't seem to get the midi working. Here's the skinny... relevant output of lsmod: ---------------------------------------------- snd-seq-midi 3136 0 (autoclean) (unused) snd-seq-oss 22080 0 (autoclean) snd-seq-midi-event 2792 0 (autoclean) [snd-seq-midi snd-seq-oss] snd-seq 32812 2 (autoclean) [snd-seq-midi snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi-event] snd-card-ens1371 9408 0 snd-pcm 46176 0 [snd-card-ens1371] snd-timer 9056 0 [snd-seq snd-pcm] snd-rawmidi 11456 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-card-ens1371] snd-seq-device 3744 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-seq-oss snd-seq snd-rawmidi] snd-ac97-codec 22848 0 [snd-card-ens1371] snd 23336 2 [snd-seq-midi snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi-event snd-seq snd-card-ens1371 snd-pcm snd-timer snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device snd-ac97-codec] soundcore 3556 4 [snd] ----------------------------------------------- $ ls -la /dev/sequencer crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 1 Mar 14 2002 /dev/sequencer ------------------------------------------------ $ ls -la /proc/asound/dev total 0 dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Jan 13 21:57 . dr-xr-xr-x 5 root root 0 Jan 13 21:57 .. crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 0 Jan 13 22:21 controlC0 crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 8 Jan 13 22:21 midiC0D0 crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 24 Jan 13 22:21 pcmC0D0c crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 16 Jan 13 22:21 pcmC0D0p crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 17 Jan 13 22:21 pcmC0D1p crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 1 Jan 13 22:21 seq crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 33 Jan 13 22:21 timer ----------------------------------------------------------- presumably snd-seq-oss is the /dev/sequencer compatability layer (which I loaded explicitly). Neither playmidi nor rosegarden can seem to open /dev/sequencer. playmidi error: ------------------------------------------------- playmidi: No playback device found ------------------------------------------------ Do I misunderstand the setup? I am presuming that when I load snd-seq-oss, that it redirects /dev/sequencer to and from the alsa sequencer and the alsa sequencer is presumably hooked up to alsa raw-midi which presumably points to the joystick port on the es1371. Is this right (I'm not so sure -- count the occurences of the word "presumably in the preceding ;) )? If so, does anyone have any idea why it's not working? Thanks in advance. Cheers, Craig