[linux-audio-user] Next question re midi

Greetings; I have installed an Audigy 2 value board which is supposed to do midi according to the propaganda. Kernel is 2.6.15, with all revelant audio as modules and are modprobe.conf-iged in and showing in the lsmod listing which is quite bulky so I won't post that list. In kde's control center, under sound, the normal, .wav or .ogg based effects work rather nicely, but the midi test seems to be a total non performer. I have this Audigy defined as snd-card-0 in my modules.conf, and here is a cat of /proc/asound/cards: ---------- 0 [Audigy2 ]: Audigy2 - Audigy 2 Value [SB0400] Audigy 2 Value [SB0400] (rev.0, serial:0x10011102) at 0x9000, irq 20 1 [nForce2 ]: NFORCE - NVidia nForce2 NVidia nForce2 with ALC655 at 0xed001000, irq 17 ---------- And: ---------- # cat /proc/asound/oss/devices 0: [0- 0]: mixer 1: : sequencer 2: [0- 0]: raw midi 3: [0- 0]: digital audio 4: [0- 0]: digital audio 8: : sequencer 9: [0- 0]: raw midi 12: [0- 1]: digital audio 13: [0- 1]: raw midi 14: [0- 1]: raw midi 16: [1- 0]: mixer 19: [1- 0]: digital audio 20: [1- 0]: digital audio 28: [1- 1]: digital audio ----------- And: ----------- # cat /proc/asound/seq/* Client info cur clients : 5 peak clients : 6 max clients : 192 Client 0 : "System" [Kernel] Port 0 : "Timer" (Rwe-) Port 1 : "Announce" (R-e-) Connecting To: 15:0 Client 14 : "Midi Through" [Kernel] Port 0 : "Midi Through Port-0" (RWe-) Client 15 : "OSS sequencer" [Kernel] Port 0 : "Receiver" (-we-) Connected From: 0:1 Output pool : Pool size : 1024 Cells in use : 0 Peak cells in use : 1 Alloc success : 401 Alloc failures : 0 Client 16 : "Audigy MPU-401 #2" [Kernel] Port 0 : "Audigy MPU-401 (UART)" (RWeX) Port 32 : "Audigy MPU-401 #2" (RWeX) Client 17 : "Emu10k1 WaveTable" [Kernel] Port 0 : "Emu10k1 Port 0" (-We-) Port 1 : "Emu10k1 Port 1" (-We-) Port 2 : "Emu10k1 Port 2" (-We-) Port 3 : "Emu10k1 Port 3" (-We-) snd-emu10k1-synth,loaded,1 snd-seq-midi,loaded,2 snd-seq-oss,loaded,1 OSS sequencer emulation version 0.1.8 ALSA client number 15 ALSA receiver port 0 Number of applications: 0 Number of synth devices: 1 synth 0: [Emu10k1] type 0x1 : subtype 0x20 : voices 64 capabilities : ioctl enabled / load_patch enabled Number of MIDI devices: 7 midi 0: [Midi Through Port-0] ALSA port 14:0 capability read/write / opened none midi 1: [Audigy MPU-401 (UART)] ALSA port 16:0 capability read/write / opened none midi 2: [Audigy MPU-401 #2] ALSA port 16:32 capability read/write / opened none midi 3: [Emu10k1 Port 0] ALSA port 17:0 capability write / opened none midi 4: [Emu10k1 Port 1] ALSA port 17:1 capability write / opened none midi 5: [Emu10k1 Port 2] ALSA port 17:2 capability write / opened none midi 6: [Emu10k1 Port 3] ALSA port 17:3 capability write / opened none --------- So that looks as if it should be raring to go. 'cat'ing a .mid file to any of the 0- devices is either a no such device error, or returns silently in 1 second or less. Whats the next thing to check here? -- Cheers, Gene People having trouble with vz bouncing email to me should add the word 'online' between the 'verizon', and the dot which bypasses vz's stupid bounce rules. I do use spamassassin too. :-) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.