Sound card: Yamaha YMFPCI I have been able to run Grip and it plays my CD audio just fine. However anything else does not work. I have found several problems with the MIDI sound players and could not get *anything* to run with these players. I tried running KMid on a midi file and it does not work, kaput. I tried timidity on a midi file that I obtained off my windows system and it gave me a segmentation fault! Then I tried timidity on the midi file: /usr/share/sndconfig/sample.midi and timidity hit the CPU to the roof and no sound, nothing, nada -- and so I had to control-C twice to terminate it since NOTHING was happening after 5 minutes. Yes, I tried the alsamixer to ensure that I had tried all the sliders -- no help. But I knew that since Grip was putting out sound I should have to do the alsamixer but what the heck -- Geez... what's left? Dan