MIDI (and audio) on freeBSD

[Jan Christian Meyer]

> Thanks a lot for answering my question. I tried to instruct KDE to look
> for some other devices (audio0.0? dsp0.0, 0.1,0.2? There is a lot...).
> Nothing happened as you have foreseen.
> The weird thing is that it seems that GNOME sounds: it starts playing
> some chords, and sounds are associated with some events (clicks, open
> windows etc.)

With KDE, do you get any error message boxes from artsmessage during the 
"Initializing peripherals" step on the splash screen, or does it just fail 
quietly? Also, what happens if you try to run artsd from a shell?

Yours sincerely,
 -Jan Christian