Well, I feel silly. I had a backup on another hard drive of my old SUSE 9.1 config, so I took a look at it. Looks like YAST wasn't putting in the alias for the second I/F (the UM2). I manually added it in and all is well now. Also on the plus side, SUSE 9.2 seems a bit more tuned as far as not seeing as many XRUNS goes. I can load up a piece with 20-22 MIDI tracks (some muted and unmuted), plus another 8-10 softsynth tracks (albeit not very busy, musically) and not see XRUNS. Granted, I also upgraded the hard drive (bigger, faster), so that probably helps as well. Coolness. R. ==
