On Mon, 2006-11-20 at 09:37 +0100, Michal Kostrzewa wrote: > > I have totally forgotten how I did manage to get midi work in Mandriva > > 2006, and now I am using Mandriva 2007. Multimedia kernel with realtime > > capabilities is installed, and audio's fine. But when I start qjackctl, > > midi stays disabled. > > I got the very same problem after upgrading to mandriva 2007. I > installed the new version of qjackctl from sources (0.2.21) and it > improved the midi tab. more likely the original poster doesn't have the snd-seq kernel module loaded. lsmod is the diagnostic tool here. for some reason, lots of distros fail to load this module by default.