I am trying to get "midi in" working on linux (ubuntu 6.10) at least on the "test audio and midi." My controller is Edirol PCR-M80 connected via usb.

/dev/sndstat shows the device as PCR:
Sound Driver:3.8.1a-980706 (ALSA v1.0.12rc1 emulation code)
Kernel: Linux diffindo 2.6.17-10-generic #2 SMP Tue Dec 5 22:28:26 UTC 2006 i686
Config options: 0

Installed drivers:
Type 10: ALSA emulation

Card config:
NVidia CK804 with ALC850 at 0xfebfd000, irq 74
MPU-401 UART at 0x330, irq 5
EDIROL PCR at usb-0000:00:0b.0-2, full speed

Audio devices:
0: NVidia CK804 (DUPLEX)

Synth devices: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG

Midi devices:
1: MPU-401 UART MIDI
2: PCR

Timers:
31: system timer

Mixers:
0: Realtek ALC850 rev 0
1: mixer10
2: mixer20

When I use the controller in "test audio and midi," nothing happens.

Many thanks for any help on troubleshooting this.

looks like you haven't set your audio and midi device in pd's preferences menu. did you?

Regular audio works fine.

If I pick "default-midi," "Input device 1" and "output device one" only have "none" as the option.

If I pick "Alsa-midi," "In Ports:" and "Out Ports" can be set to all sort of numbers (I have tried 1-3, for whatever that is worth), to no result.

Thanks hardoff but I am still stuck.

isn't your midi device number #2

@hardoff said:

isn't your midi device number #2

It would seem so, however, I am not getting any indication that midi is working in "test audio and midi."

do you have the alsa module snd-seq loaded ?
check with the command lsmod,
if not, you shoud "sudo modprobe snd-seq" and restart pd
Usually it's not enabled by default

@Gimmeapill said:

do you have the alsa module snd-seq loaded ?

lsmod|grep snd_seq
snd_seq_dummy 4996 2
snd_seq_oss 36480 5
snd_seq_midi 9984 2
snd_rawmidi 27264 3 snd_usb_lib,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_seq_midi
snd_seq_midi_event 8960 2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi
snd_seq 59120 6 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_timer 25348 3 snd_rtctimer,snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd_seq_device 9868 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq
snd 58372 16 snd_usb_audio,snd_hwdep,snd_mpu401,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_seq_oss,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_rawmidi,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device

Thanks, Gimmeapill, but it has been loaded all along and of course I am not getting midi.

yep modules look fine, looks like you just need to connect the midi controller to pd via alsaconnect. There's a GUI to do this : http://www.iua.upf.es/~mdeboer/projects/aconnectgui/
should be packaged in the Ubuntu repos

Thanks Gimmeapill! It works!