Hi I suppose that this is ot but the alsa mailing list seems to be dead so maybe some one can help. I'm looking for a sound card with midi support. I also want full 192K sampling for all modes both in and out. This is generally rather expensive with one exception as far as I am aware - the esi juli@ card. Google searches show plenty of linux updates for this specific card but give no idea of the current status. Lot's of moans about it not being supported too. Will this card function in any useful way with my current installation? If it will play music and notification sounds etc I can always use it's full potential under windoze until the driver is fully developed. According to /usr/src my kernel version is 2.6.13-15.8. I still haven't figured out how to get at the kernel version from konsole and there isn't any src. there to check. Regards John -- Suse 10.0 KDE 3.4.2 B ___________________________________________________ . Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.