Cobbler's Hornpipe.mid Mail evolution nsmail test GNUstep Nautilus kvirc-2.1.0 office52 vmware phil@lead:~ > mc phil@lead:~ > playmidi chp.mid Playmidi 2.4 Copyright (C) 1994-1997 Nathan I. Laredo, AWE32 by Takashi Iwai This is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. For details please see the file COPYING. no sound there... ;o) bash-2.05# insmod op13 insmod: op13: no module by that name found bash-2.05# cat /dev/sndstat cat: /dev/sndstat: No such device bash-2.05# lsmod Module Size Used by snd-seq-oss 28848 0 (autoclean) snd-pcm-oss 18816 0 (autoclean) snd-pcm-plugin 15024 0 (autoclean) [snd-pcm-oss] snd-mixer-oss 5120 1 (autoclean) [snd-pcm-oss] tdfx 53648 1 snd-seq-midi 3568 0 snd-seq-midi-event 2992 0 [snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi] snd-seq 42656 0 [snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi snd-seq-midi-event] snd-card-sb16 4544 1 isa-pnp 28176 0 [snd-card-sb16] snd-sb16-csp 15888 0 [snd-card-sb16] snd-sb16-dsp 15888 0 [snd-card-sb16 snd-sb16-csp] snd-pcm 30560 0 [snd-pcm-oss snd-pcm-plugin snd-sb16-dsp] snd-mixer 24224 0 [snd-mixer-oss snd-sb16-csp snd-sb16-dsp] snd-opl3 4848 0 [snd-card-sb16] snd-hwdep 3376 0 [snd-sb16-csp snd-opl3] snd-timer 8560 0 [snd-seq snd-pcm snd-opl3] snd-mpu401-uart 2512 0 [snd-card-sb16] snd-rawmidi 9664 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-mpu401-uart] snd-seq-device 4032 0 [snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi snd-seq snd-rawmidi] snd 34032 1 [snd-seq-oss snd-pcm-oss snd-pcm-plugin snd-mixer-oss snd-seq-midi snd-seq-midi-event snd-seq snd-card-sb16 snd-sb16-csp snd-sb16-dsp snd-pcm snd-mixer snd-opl3 snd-hwdep snd-timer snd-mpu401-uart snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device] soundcore 3632 7 [snd] <snippage of other private devices> hrmm. i am lost. i have no midi i only had suse for about a week now. I want to drive my neighbor crazy with a cool drum machine heheh can anyone suggest the settings. maybe something in modules.conf I been commenting / uncommenting, booting, rebooting etc. I just ain't found the right combination. who's got a plain old sound blaster 16 and working midi? (attach your modules.conf) I don't mind getting mail.