midi sound problems
 

Hi, I'm using Fiesty with an SB Live soundcard. Trying to get midi sound working.

First, I can play regular sound files, no problem. When I tried to play a midi file using kmid, however (or aplaymidi), no sound comes out. Kmid does display the words but no sound.

I installed timidity, and it is able to play the midi files successfully.

I tried running Timidity as a server, it seemed like that might be necessary for kmid and other programs to work. I've tried running it as both:
and as

...both were suggested in various howtos/posts. In both cases, when I start kmid, I see extra midi "devices" now in kmidi:

Timidity port 0 ALSA device
Timidity port 1 ALSA device
Timidity port 2 ALSA device
Timidity port 3 ALSA device

However, selecting these devices in kmidi doesn't seem to make a difference. No sound plays from kmid, though timidity can play sound successfully.

I have reached a dead end at this point, can't find any further info (though other people seem to be having similar problems).

Does anyone know what them problem is and how to fix it?