[linux-audio-user] ALSA/kernel 2.6.0-test3

Hi I just installed kernel 2.6.0-test3 on my laptop. I looked around in /proc and saw all kinds of promissing things showing up there. /var/log/messages even showed my Evolution USB keyboard. Very nice. But since I'm fairly new to the kernel2.6.0/build-in-ALSA I'm hoping for some pointers just to get started. 1) I didn't do any configuration of ALSA. Is that needed? If so how do I do it now that ALSA is compiled in? 2) Where can I expect my devices to show up? For now I have an onboard soundcard (i810) and the Evolution keyboard. I would like to route the incomming midi to csound, but later also to either Muse or Rosegarden4. Is that a matter of having the softsynth or sequencer read from /dev/midi00 (or somthing like that)? And do I simply tell the sound generating software to direct its output to the appropriate device, say /dev/audio? 3) I noticed somethiing jack showing up. Is jack supported? If so, to what extend? 4) What would be a nice program use for figuring out what midi-events the knobs on the Evolution sends? Hope some of you could find the time to either explain me a bit or send me in direction of some useful documentation. Thanks in advance. -- peace, love & harmony Atte