Hello, I have a CS4235-based sound card (Aopen AW37 3D) in an Intel box running Redhat 7.1 with kernel 2.4.9-ac14. The OSS driver supported playback (including MIDI), but I couldn't get it to record; which was my motivation for trying ALSA. Now it will record, but I don't have MIDI playback. "playmidi" aborts with the error: No playback device found. I've read the Sound-HOWTO and ALSA docs and mini HOWTO and the docs in /usr/src/linux/Documentation/sound, as well as trying some suggestions I've seen made on this list to help resolve others' problems. Here's my modules.conf file. I'm quite sure that all of the lines don't need to be in there, I'm just not sure which ones are extraneous. Under OSS, the opl3 module was used for MIDI. alias eth0 8139too alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc alias usb-controller usb-uhci alias char-major-116 snd options snd snd_major=116 snd_cards_limit=1 alias char-major-14 soundcore alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0 alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss # also tried snd-seq-oss in the line below alias sound-service-0-2 snd-opl3 alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss alias synth0 snd-seq-oss alias snd-card-0 snd-card-cs4236 options snd-card-cs4236 snd_index=0 snd_id="AW37" alias snd-synth-midi snd-opl3 Thanks for any help, Ben Logan -- When Linux won't install on some hardware configuration, it means you you need to switch to Windoze; but when a M$ product won't install, it means you need to buy a new computer. _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user