ALSA installation blocked by "snd-seq-midi"

[Olivier]

Hello all,
I have freshly installed Debian 3.1 and I wanted to install the ALSA drivers (and use dmix that comes with it). After having spent 2 days on the web looking for a solution, I still don't have THE solution but I have some doubts with the ALSA installation. I installed the driver as explained here: http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/do ... e=intel8x0 and I have an error when I try to load the modules:

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SOLSITO:/usr/src/alsa/alsa-utils-1.0.10# modprobe snd-intel8x0;modprobe snd-pcm-oss;modprobe snd-mixer-oss;modprobe snd-seq-oss
modprobe: Can't locate module snd-seq-midi which is needed for snd-seq-oss

When I try to load "snd-seq-midi" manually, I get:

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SOLSITO:/usr/src/alsa/alsa-utils-1.0.10# modprobe snd-seq-midi
modprobe: Can't locate module snd-seq-midi

Thus I guess I cannot use ALSA's dmix because it cannot load "snd-seq-oss". I have some doubts.
Anyway, I don't understand why alsaplayer can"t find its own driver:

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olivier@SOLSITO:~$ alsaplayer
Failed to load output plugin "alsa". Trying defaults.

My questions:
1) Does anybody understand why I don't have the snd-sep-midi module? and how I could install it?
2) Why mplayer can use ALSA but not alsaplayer?

Thanks for your help,

OIivier