My sound has been working flawlessly for months, until I recently attempted to use MIDI. I seem to have all the pieces in place except /dev/snd/seq. 0000:00:0b.0 Multimedia audio controller: ESS Technology ES1969 Solo-1 Audiodrive (rev 01) aptiva:/etc/init.d# lsmod | grep midi snd_rawmidi 23584 1 snd_mpu401_uart snd_seq_device 8332 2 snd_opl3_lib,snd_rawmidi snd 50180 10 snd_es1938,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_opl3_lib,snd_timer,snd_hwdep,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device aptiva:/etc/init.d# aconnect ALSA lib seq_hw.c:455:(snd_seq_hw_open) open /dev/snd/seq failed: No such file or directory can't open sequencer aptiva:/etc/init.d# ls -l /dev/snd/ total 0 crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 0 2006-02-27 22:10 controlC0 crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 4 2006-02-27 22:10 hwC0D0 crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 8 2006-02-27 22:10 midiC0D0 crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 24 2006-02-27 22:10 pcmC0D0c crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 16 2006-02-27 22:10 pcmC0D0p crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 33 2006-02-27 22:10 timer My fiancee needs noteedit working for a class she's teaching Wed, so pointers are desperately needed. Thanks, Mark Mitchell -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20060227/457b70c0/attachment.pgp