"John Culleton" <john@wexfordpress.com> wrote in message
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> Yes, I have an ES1371 card and yes, it used to work under Slackware
> 10. But I reinstalled Slack for reasons not pertinent here. Now
> systems sounds work but the Kmidi player doesn't. It acts like it is
> playing a song but no sound comes out. Yes, I went to kmix and ran the
> volume up and muted the second checkblock for IEC958 to get rid of the
> hiss. I ran alsaconf. I commented out all the stuff in modules.conf
> relating to OSS. I ran control center and down at the button where it
> says "Test Sound" I get the startup sound but on the similar block
> that says "Test Midi" I get nothing.
>
> I have an extra partition. should I install a fresh Slack there and
> then do whatever magic steps are necessary? BTW what are the magic
> steps for playing midi files?
>
> And why, after all these years, doesn't sound work out of the box?
>
> John Culleton

I've got this problem too

I have NO DVD, CD or system audio but I've got system sound in GAIM
any trouble shooting ideas?