Hi Pithball,
Try to manually load the snd-rawmidi module:
$ /sbin/modprobe snd-rawmidi
$ /sbin/lsmod | grep snd
Any changes to alsamixer?
[root@localhost etc]# ./init.d/alsasound stop
Shutting down sound driver: done
[root@localhost etc]# lsmod | grep snd
snd_page_alloc 10632 0
[root@localhost etc]# modprobe snd-rawmidi
[root@localhost etc]# lsmod | grep snd
snd_rawmidi 24960 0
snd_seq_device 8844 1 snd_rawmidi
snd 53124 2 snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device
soundcore 10464 1 snd
snd_page_alloc 10632 0
[root@localhost etc]# alsamixer
alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such device
[root@localhost etc]# cat /proc/asound/cards
--- no soundcards ---
Nothing got added to dmesg or /var/log/messages.
I tried several other modules too. Some let me open alsamixer but
give the same result (no master volume). I'll try some more, because
I thought I've seen one that gave more items in alsamixer.
JeeBee.