Playmidi

Hi,

I am hoping anyone who reads this thread can give me a hand. I revently have downloaded the playmidi from the CVS source tree. I compiled it with option #1 (External midi synth, Ensoniq Soundscape, TB Maui, waveblaster cards) and it complained with the following error:

grep: /dev/sndstat: No such device

I read the comp.os.linux.misc and found some responses to the posts saying that "/dev/sndstat" has been depricated and replaced with "/proc/asound/sndstat". Then, I edited the "Configure" file and replaced "/dev/sndstat" with "/proc/asound/sndstat". I recompiled the playmidi with option #1 successfully. However, when I tried to play any midi song with either playmidi or xplaymidi, they both played the midi song but I don't hear any sound/song coming out from the speakers. I have installed alsa-driver-0.5.10b (I could not get the latest alsa-driver running). Does this mean playmidi does not support via686a sound chip? If so, what other software should I use to play midi files instead of playmidi?

TIA.