Hi Frank Frank Barknecht wrote: > Normally nowadays people tend to use the ALSA > driver, which is called snd-usb-audio for Midi devices as well. You > can put usb-midi into /etc/hotplug/blacklist or just delete the kernel > module. after: rmmod usb-midi modprobe snd-usb-midi lsmod reports: root 19:16:02> lsmod Module Size Used by Not tainted snd-usb-audio 47232 0 (unused) snd-hdsp 41292 0 snd-hwdep 5472 0 [snd-hdsp] snd-intel8x0 20388 0 snd-ac97-codec 49388 0 [snd-intel8x0] snd-mpu401-uart 4304 0 [snd-intel8x0] ohci1394 27272 0 (unused) ieee1394 52292 0 [ohci1394] snd-rawmidi 15552 0 (autoclean) [snd-usb-audio snd-hdsp snd-mpu401-uart] snd-seq-device 4452 0 (autoclean) [snd-rawmidi] snd-pcm 69088 0 (autoclean) [snd-usb-audio snd-hdsp snd-intel8x0] snd-page-alloc 7380 0 (autoclean) [snd-hdsp snd-intel8x0 snd-pcm] snd-timer 17380 0 (autoclean) [snd-pcm] snd 37252 0 (autoclean) [snd-usb-audio snd-hdsp snd-hwdep snd-intel8x0 snd-ac97-codec snd-mpu401-uart snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device snd-pcm snd-timer] soundcore 4548 4 (autoclean) [snd] and the log reports the same when plugging in the 2x2: Mar 22 19:14:08 umatic1 hub.c: new USB device 00:1d.0-1, assigned address 36 Mar 22 19:14:08 umatic1 usb.c: USB device 36 (vend/prod 0x763/0x1001) is not claimed by any active driver. Mar 22 19:14:11 umatic1 /etc/hotplug/usb/ezusbmidi: load /usr/share/usb/ezusbmidi/ezusbmidi2x2.ihx for 763/1001/1 to It simply doesn't know where to load the ezusbmidi driver to.... hmmm..... ...starting to really *love* antique 8-bit technology... :-) d. -- derek holzer ::: http://www.umatic.nl ---Oblique Strategy # 134: "Remove a restriction"