Struggling with midi again, but this time there is hope... Midi works perfectly with Studio to Go! demo & Edirol UM-1x and my Yamaha PSR-273 keyboard. But Mandriva 2006 doesn't recognize Edirol as USB midi device. ################################################# "amidi -l" says: Device Name hw:0,0 Audigy MPU-401 (UART) hw:0,1 Audigy MPU-401 #2 hw:1,0 EMU10K1 MPU-401 (UART) (i got both Audigy & SB Live! in my machine, btw) ################################################## "/sbin/lsmod" says (after typing "modprobe snd-usb-audio"): Module Size Used by snd_usb_audio 75456 0 snd_usb_lib 16128 1 snd_usb_audio binfmt_misc 11656 1 raw 8992 1 ipv6 248704 8 ipt_limit 2432 8 iptable_mangle 2816 0 ipt_LOG 6656 8 ipt_MASQUERADE 3328 0 ip_nat 18996 1 ipt_MASQUERADE ipt_TOS 2432 0 ipt_REJECT 5504 1 ip_conntrack_irc 6640 0 ip_conntrack_ftp 7792 0 ipt_state 1920 6 ip_conntrack 52912 5 ipt_MASQUERADE,ip_nat,ip_conntrack_irc,ip_conntrack_ftp,ipt_state nfnetlink 6552 2 ip_nat,ip_conntrack iptable_filter 2944 1 ip_tables 19968 8 ipt_limit,iptable_mangle,ipt_LOG,ipt_MASQUERADE,ipt_TOS,ipt_REJECT,ipt_state,iptable_filter 3c59x 42024 0 mii 5504 1 3c59x af_packet 21768 2 floppy 61380 0 ide_cd 40964 0 cdrom 37792 1 ide_cd loop 16264 0 via_agp 9728 1 agpgart 34248 1 via_agp bt878 10424 0 tuner 37544 0 tda9887 13840 0 bttv 159056 1 bt878 video_buf 21124 1 bttv firmware_class 10368 1 bttv i2c_algo_bit 9352 1 bttv v4l2_common 5888 1 bttv btcx_risc 5000 1 bttv tveeprom 13456 1 bttv i2c_core 21648 5 tuner,tda9887,bttv,i2c_algo_bit,tveeprom videodev 9472 1 bttv snd_emu10k1 109220 0 snd_ac97_codec 90272 1 snd_emu10k1 snd_pcm 85512 3 snd_usb_audio,snd_emu10k1,snd_ac97_codec snd_ac97_bus 2304 1 snd_ac97_codec snd_page_alloc 10632 2 snd_emu10k1,snd_pcm snd_util_mem 4736 1 snd_emu10k1 snd_hwdep 9120 2 snd_usb_audio,snd_emu10k1 snd_seq_midi 9120 0 snd_rawmidi 24480 3 snd_usb_lib,snd_emu10k1,snd_seq_midi snd_seq_midi_event 7168 1 snd_seq_midi snd_seq 48784 2 snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event snd_timer 23940 3 snd_emu10k1,snd_pcm,snd_seq snd_seq_device 8716 4 snd_emu10k1,snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq snd 53348 9 snd_usb_audio,snd_emu10k1,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_hwdep,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device realtime 5384 0 commoncap 7168 1 realtime pcspkr 3552 0 psmouse 35844 0 mousedev 11552 1 usb_midi 23428 0 soundcore 9440 2 snd,usb_midi usbkbd 6912 0 usbmouse 5376 0 faketty 12100 0 usbhid 48160 0 uhci_hcd 32016 0 usbcore 118016 8 snd_usb_audio,snd_usb_lib,usb_midi,usbkbd,usbmouse,usbhid,uhci_hcd ext3 130568 8 jbd 51604 1 ext3 #####################################################################################3 /etc/modprobe.conf contains: # --- BEGIN: Generated by ALSACONF, do not edit. --- # --- ALSACONF version 1.0.11 --- alias sound-slot-0 snd-emu10k1 # --- END: Generated by ALSACONF, do not edit. --- alias snd-1 snd-usb-audio alias snd-0 snd-emu10k1 alias eth0 3c59x options snd cards_limit=2 options snd-usb-audio index=1 vid=0x0582 pid=0x0052