I've a Dell 4550 with Intel integrated AC'97 sound card. # lspci 00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 01) # aplaymidi -l Port Client name Port name 14:0 Midi Through Midi Through Port-0 Based on above aplaymidi output, does that mean my card does not have a on-board sound table of sort, so, there isn't a virtual port that allows me to send midi commands to, and have it played through dsp? Currently, I'm able to use Timidity to process a midi file, translate it to wave and output to dsp. However, I believe this approach is not integrated to alsa. As a result, I think, Audacious isn't able to play midi, because alsa system isn't setup to play midi. Below is lsmod output, I'm not sure if I missed loading some modules. # lsmod | grep snd snd_intel8x0 35549 1 snd_ac97_codec 93413 1 snd_intel8x0 ac97_bus 6465 1 snd_ac97_codec snd_seq_dummy 7877 0 snd_seq_oss 33601 0 snd_seq_midi_event 11201 1 snd_seq_oss snd_seq 51249 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event snd_seq_device 11853 3 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq snd_pcm_oss 43617 0 snd_mixer_oss 19393 1 snd_pcm_oss snd_pcm 75205 3 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss snd_timer 25157 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm snd 53829 11 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer soundcore 11681 1 snd snd_page_alloc 13769 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
