I'm having big troubles getting my MIDI devices to work... Been trying
for days, but no luck.
I have a Soundblaster Live! with builtin midi support, and a Kawai
keyboard with usb midi jack. I'm using kernel 2.6, KDE and alsa. I load
usb-midi as kernel module, and setup alsa according to the docs for the
Soundblaster. Sound works fine, BUT:

- SB MIDI doesn't play at all. It is still visible at the Sounds control
center, but Test Midi doesn't work, and whenever I play a midi I get no
sound. I 'd love to use the internal midi, but I bypassed that by using
timidity. With its software midi, i can at least listen to files.
- There's no way to see the USB MIDI. I know it is connected, because
Info Center / USB Devices shows USB-MIDI: Kawai Musical Instruments etc,
but neither aplaymidi -l nor rosegarden see that.

Any help? This is driving me crazy.

List of devices:

bash-2.05b$ aplaymidi -l
Port Client name Port name
64:0 EMU10K1 MPU-401 (UART) EMU10K1 MPU-401 (UART)
65:0 Emu10k1 WaveTable Emu10k1 Port 0
65:1 Emu10k1 WaveTable Emu10k1 Port 1
65:2 Emu10k1 WaveTable Emu10k1 Port 2
65:3 Emu10k1 WaveTable Emu10k1 Port 3
128:0 TiMidity TiMidity port 0
128:1 TiMidity TiMidity port 1
128:2 TiMidity TiMidity port 2
128:3 TiMidity TiMidity port 3

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Contents of /etc/modules.d/alsa:

options snd device_mode=0666
alias snd-card-0 snd-emu10k1
alias sound-slot-0 snd-emu10k1

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Contents of /proc/asound/oss/sndstat


Sound Driver:3.8.1a-980706 (ALSA v1.0.7 emulation code)
Kernel: Linux tero 2.6.9-gentoo-r9 #3 SMP Tue Dec 21 16:52:40 EET 2004 i686
Config options: 0

Installed drivers:
Type 10: ALSA emulation

Card config:
Sound Blaster Live! (rev.8) at 0xa000, irq 21

Audio devices:
0: EMU10K1 (DUPLEX)

Synth devices:
0: Emu10k1

Midi devices: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG

Timers:
7: system timer

Mixers:
0: TriTech TR28602