Well I've problem with MIDI, so I think thaht, as I am a newbie, I could have not well installed my soundcard (Ensoniq SBPCI 1371). I've been told that alsa was the simpliest way to install a PCI soundcard, so I tried (I just say 'tried') to install it with alsa. Firstly, with YaST2: Everything is ok, it detects my soundcard (Ensoniq Creative Sound Blaster AudioPCI 128), but then it says "the kernel module snd-card-ens1371 for sound support can't be loaded". So, no sound... Secondly, with alsaconf: Everything i ok, it detects mu soundcard..., seems to install it and... Starting sound driver: snd-card-ens1371 alsactl: The sound card 'card1' was not found... alsactl: The sound card 'card1' was not found... /lib/modules/2.2.16/misc/snd-card-ens1371.o: init_module: Device orn resource busy Hint: this error can be caused by incorrect parameters, including IO or IRQ parameters. /lib/modules/2.2.16/misc/snd-card-ens1371.o: insmod /lib/modules/2.2.16/snd-card-ens1371.o failed /lib/modules/2.2.16/misc/snd-card-ens1371.o: insmod snd-card-ens1371 failed. Now I have the same message when I boot, concluded by a wonderful 'done' (it looks like Microsoft...) and no sound. When I installed my soundcard with OSS (before alsa), I had sound, but no MIDI, and I had to type 'modprobe es1371' after each boot to make my soundcad work. So I think a soundcard half working is better than a soundcard not working, and I will uninstall alsa, but I will need to have MIDI very soon, because I use a software in my job which uses MIDI (the developers of this soft themselves adviced me a SB PCI 128, so it does'nt come from the soundcard...). So I probably misunderstand something in the docs (because O know people having MIDI with the same soundcard and SuSE), anyone can help me? Thanks, Romain