HI, well since this report, I've been trying to follow this howto: http://ubuntuforums.org/ showthread.php?t=8736 . Unfotunately, not much success. Kmid appars to play the midi files but no sound comes out. Therefore the midi modules you see in lsmod were loaded by me manually, not detected automatically by ubuntu. I also blacklisted the intel ac97 drivers in /etc/hotplug/blacklist that seemed to be causing a few problems. This was called sndintel8x0 and seems to be unneccesary for my system. I also had to do ln -s /dev/audio1 /dev/dsp to get any sound, period. Sound card: Creative Soundblaster Live 5.1 Sound Blaster Live! (rev.7) at 0xb800, irq 9 Intel 82801AA-ICH at 0xe000, irq 3 Audio devices: 0: EMU10K1 (DUPLEX) 1: Intel 82801AA-ICH (DUPLEX) Synth devices: 0: Emu10k1 Midi devices: 0: EMU10K1 MPU-401 (UART) Timers: 7: system timer Mixers: 0: SigmaTel STAC9708/11 1: SigmaTel STAC9744 --------------------------- Module Size Used by radeon 115236 4 proc_intf 3968 0 cpufreq_powersave 2048 0 cpufreq_userspace 5336 0 freq_table 4356 0 ds 17796 0 yenta_socket 19328 0 pcmcia_core 63156 2 ds,yenta_socket button 6680 0 ac 5132 0 battery 9740 0 ipv6 230020 6 af_packet 20872 2 ohci1394 32004 0 ieee1394 100536 1 ohci1394 8139too 23936 0 8139cp 19072 0 mii 4864 2 8139too,8139cp crc32 4608 2 8139too,8139cp emu10k1_gp 3840 0 usbhid 28864 0 snd_intel8x0 33068 3 snd_mpu401_uart 7296 1 snd_intel8x0 uhci_hcd 29328 0 usbcore 104292 4 usbhid,uhci_hcd hw_random 5652 0 intel_agp 20512 1 agpgart 31784 2 intel_agp pcspkr 3816 0 rtc 12216 0 analog 10784 0 gameport 4736 3 emu10k1_gp,snd_intel8x0,analog floppy 54996 0 nls_iso8859_1 4352 1 nls_cp437 6016 1 md 44744 0 dm_mod 51068 1 capability 4872 0 commoncap 7168 1 capability snd_emu10k1_synth 6784 0 snd_emu10k1 80776 8 snd_emu10k1_synth snd_pcm_oss 48168 0 snd_mixer_oss 16640 6 snd_pcm_oss snd_pcm 85540 4 snd_intel8x0,snd_emu10k1,snd_pcm_oss snd_ac97_codec 59268 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_emu10k1 snd_page_alloc 11144 3 snd_intel8x0,snd_emu10k1,snd_pcm snd_emux_synth 33408 1 snd_emu10k1_synth snd_seq_virmidi 7296 1 snd_emux_synth snd_seq_midi_emul 7680 1 snd_emux_synth snd_hwdep 9120 2 snd_emu10k1,snd_emux_synth snd_util_mem 4608 2 snd_emu10k1,snd_emux_synth snd_seq_midi 8096 0 snd_rawmidi 23232 4 snd_mpu401_uart,snd_emu10k1,snd_seq_virmidi,snd_seq_midi snd_seq_oss 29440 0 snd_seq_midi_event 7552 3 snd_seq_virmidi,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_oss snd_seq 46608 8 snd_emux_synth,snd_seq_virmidi,snd_seq_midi_emul,snd_seq_midi, snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event snd_timer 23172 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq snd_seq_device 7944 7 snd_emu10k1_synth,snd_emu10k1,snd_emux_synth,snd_seq_midi, snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq snd 50660 27 snd_intel8x0,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_emu10k1,snd_pcm_oss, snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_ac97_codec,snd_emux_synth,snd_seq_virmidi,snd_hwdep,snd_util_mem, snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device soundcore 9824 6 snd parport_pc 32064 1 lp 10436 0 parport 37320 2 parport_pc,lp ide_cd 38276 0 tsdev 7168 0 cdrom 35872 1 ide_cd mousedev 10124 1 evdev 9088 0 psmouse 17800 0 xfs 500184 0 reiserfs 207600 1 jfs 157632 0 vfat 13312 1 fat 41792 1 vfat isofs 33976 0 ext3 109544 0 jbd 54552 1 ext3 ide_generic 1664 0 ide_disk 16768 4 piix 12576 1 ide_core 125272 4 ide_cd,ide_generic,ide_disk,piix unix 25904 578 fan 4236 0 thermal 12944 0 processor 17584 1 thermal font 8576 0 vesafb 6688 0 cfbcopyarea 3968 1 vesafb cfbimgblt 3200 1 vesafb cfbfillrect 3712 1 vesafb -------------------------------------------- Linux version 2.6.8.1-2-386 (buildd@terranova) (gcc version 3.3.4 (Debian 1:3.3.4-9ubuntu5)) #1 Tue Sep 14 10:30:08 BST 2004 BIOS-provided physical RAM map: BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable) BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000000fffc000 (usable) BIOS-e820: 000000000fffc000 - 000000000ffff000 (ACPI data) BIOS-e820: 000000000ffff000 - 0000000010000000 (ACPI NVS) BIOS-e820: 00000000ffff0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved) 255MB LOWMEM available. On node 0 totalpages: 65532 DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:1 Normal zone: 61436 pages, LIFO batch:14 HighMem zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:1 DMI 2.3 present. ACPI: RSDP (v000 ASUS ) @ 0x000f5b30 ACPI: RSDT (v001 ASUS CUSL-LE 0x30303031 MSFT 0x31313031) @ 0x0fffc000 ACPI: FADT (v001 ASUS CUSL-LE 0x30303031 MSFT 0x31313031) @ 0x0fffc080 ACPI: BOOT (v001 ASUS CUSL-LE 0x30303031 MSFT 0x31313031) @ 0x0fffc040 ACPI: DSDT (v001 ASUS CUSL-LE 0x00001000 MSFT 0x0100000b) @ 0x00000000 ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0xe408 Built 1 zonelists Kernel command line: root=/dev/hdb2 ro quiet splash Local APIC disabled by BIOS -- reenabling. Found and enabled local APIC! Initializing CPU#0 PID hash table entries: 1024 (order 10: 8192 bytes) Detected 735.159 MHz processor. Using pmtmr for high-res timesource Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes) Inode-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes) Memory: 252124k/262128k available (1331k kernel code, 9268k reserved, 725k data, 204k init, 0k highmem) Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok. Calibrating delay loop... 1458.17 BogoMIPS Security Scaffold v1.0.0 initialized Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes) CPU: After generic identify, caps: 0387fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 CPU: After vendor identify, caps: 0387fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K CPU: L2 cache: 256K CPU serial number disabled. CPU: After all inits, caps: 0383fbff 00000000 00000000 00000040 CPU: Intel Pentium III (Coppermine) stepping 03 Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done. Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done. Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. Checking for popad bug... OK. ACPI: IRQ9 SCI: Level Trigger. enabled ExtINT on CPU#0 ESR value before enabling vector: 00000000 ESR value after enabling vector: 00000000 Using local APIC timer interrupts. calibrating APIC timer ... ..... CPU clock speed is 734.0890 MHz. ..... host bus clock speed is 133.0616 MHz. checking if image is initramfs...it isn't (ungzip failed); looks like an initrd Freeing initrd memory: 4316k freed NET: Registered protocol family 16 EISA bus registered PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xf0900, last bus=2 PCI: Using configuration type 1 mtrr: v2.0 (20020519) ACPI: Subsystem revision 20040326 ACPI-0165: *** Error: No object was returned from [\_SB_.PCI0.PX40.UAR2._STA] (Node cfb85640) , AE_NOT_EXIST ACPI: Interpreter enabled ACPI: Using PIC for interrupt routing ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 *11 12 14 15) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs *3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 14 15) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 *9 10 11 12 14 15) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 *9 10 11 12 14 15) ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (00:00) PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00) PCI: Transparent bridge - 0000:00:1e.0 ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.PCI1._PRT] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.PCI2._PRT] Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay PnPBIOS: Scanning system for PnP BIOS support... PnPBIOS: Found PnP BIOS installation structure at 0xc00fc670 PnPBIOS: PnP BIOS version 1.0, entry 0xf0000:0xc6a0, dseg 0xf0000 pnp: 00:12: ioport range 0x290-0x297 has been reserved pnp: 00:12: ioport range 0x3f0-0x3f1 has been reserved pnp: 00:12: ioport range 0xe400-0xe47f has been reserved pnp: 00:12: ioport range 0xec00-0xec3f has been reserved PnPBIOS: 17 nodes reported by PnP BIOS; 17 recorded by driver PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] enabled at IRQ 9 ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1f.2[D] -> GSI 9 (level, low) -> IRQ 9 ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] enabled at IRQ 3 ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1f.3[B] -> GSI 3 (level, low) -> IRQ 3 ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1f.5[B] -> GSI 3 (level, low) -> IRQ 3 ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] enabled at IRQ 11 ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:01:00.0[A] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11 ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] enabled at IRQ 9 ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:02:0a.0[A] -> GSI 9 (level, low) -> IRQ 9 ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:02:0b.0[A] -> GSI 9 (level, low) -> IRQ 9 ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:02:0d.0[A] -> GSI 3 (level, low) -> IRQ 3 ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:02:0e.0[A] -> GSI 9 (level, low) -> IRQ 9 Simple Boot Flag at 0x3a set to 0x1 VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1 Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes) devfs: 2004-01-31 Richard Gooch (