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marcin@hapek:~$ uname -a
Linux hapek 2.6.38-0.slh.2-aptosid-686 #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Mar 16 13:23:32 UTC 2011 i686 GNU/Linux

marcin@hapek:~$ playmidi phil_collins_-_dont_lose_my_number.mid 
Playmidi 2.4 Copyright (C) 1994-1997 Nathan I. Laredo, AWE32 by Takashi Iwai
This is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
For details please see the file COPYING.
open /dev/sequencer: No such file or directory

marcin@hapek:~$ ls -l /dev | grep sequencer
marcin@hapek:~$ 

marcin@hapek:~$ lspci | grep media
00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: ALi Corporation M5451 PCI AC-Link Controller Audio Device (rev 02)

marcin@hapek:~$ cat /dev/sndstat 
Sound Driver:3.8.1a-980706 (ALSA v1.0.23 emulation code)
Kernel: Linux hapek 2.6.38-0.slh.2-aptosid-686 #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Mar 16 13:23:32 UTC 2011 i686
Config options: 0

Installed drivers: 
Type 10: ALSA emulation

Card config: 
ALI 5451 at 0x8400, irq 5

Audio devices: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG

Synth devices: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG

Midi devices: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG

Timers:
31: system timer

Mixers: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG

marcin@hapek:~$ lsmod | grep snd
snd_seq_midi            3880  0 
snd_seq_midi_event      4424  1 snd_seq_midi
snd_rawmidi            14808  1 snd_seq_midi
snd_ali5451            13532  0 
snd_ac97_codec         86431  1 snd_ali5451
ac97_bus                 754  1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_pcm                56982  2 snd_ali5451,snd_ac97_codec
snd_seq                40089  2 snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_timer              14743  2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd_seq_device          4233  3 snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq
snd                    40757  7 snd_rawmidi,snd_ali5451,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
soundcore               4417  1 snd
snd_page_alloc          5653  1 snd_pcm

root@hapek:/home/marcin# alsactl init
Unknown hardware: "ALI5451" "Conexant Cx20468 rev 1,Conexant Cx20468 rev 1" "AC97a:43585429 AC97m:43585429" "0x103c" "0x0024"
Hardware is initialized using a guess method

marcin@hapek:~$ cat /proc/asound/devices 
  1:        : sequencer
  2: [ 0- 0]: digital audio playback
  3: [ 0- 0]: digital audio capture
  4: [ 0]   : control
 33:        : timer