Jonathan Gardner wrote: > First, with my older motherboard, I could control the various output > and input levels of the channels. With this motherboard, I only have > one channel "Internal Audio Analog Stereo". This looks like PulseAudio's idea of a user-friendly abstraction. Try "alsamixer -D hw:0". > Second, I never really got MIDI working, at least not that I recall in > my 10 years of Linux. I know MIDI is possible, I just don't know what > it takes. I've been playing with musescore which apparently plays the > notes over MIDI so you can hear what you wrote, which would be nice. Your mainboard doesn't support MIDI, but I guess you don't have any external MIDI devices anyway. To play back MIDI data, you need some synthesizer. Try FluidSynth. Regards, Clemens _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel