Greetings, Some of you may remember my sometime posts about attempting to get the M-Audio Ozone Academic MIDI keyboard/audio interface to work in Ubuntu Studio, or any other distro, for that matter.  Some folks in my local LUG discovered that a kernel patch had been written to allow the MIDI port to be recognized, and I have spent the last month unsuccessfully trying to boot the patched kernel.  Someone at the January LUG meeting patched the kernel on his Slackware laptop, and had TiMidity playing from my keyboard, but I have not had this kind of success. Here is a link to something about this patch: <a href="http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=2ea547dcdd4216370f00dd65a18ee5a0271646a0">http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=2ea547dcdd4216370f00dd65a18ee5a0271646a0</a> It may be that this is scheduled to become part of the general kernel; I don't know how those decisions get made.  Seeing "torvalds" in that URL makes me wonder if  it's a done deal, and that eventually it will trickle down to Ubuntu. If this patch is not destined to become part of the Linux kernel, I would like to know the how to best lobby the Ubuntu Studio devs to include this patch in a future version of U/S.  These keyboards are likely to become available on the used market, as they are part of a bundle that Digidesign is discontinuing.  People who want to get started in Linux audio could benefit from kernel support for a basic do-it-all USB device that may become common and inexpensive. In any case, it would be a good idea for me to learn to apply this patch to U/S, and I would welcome responses from Ubuntu Studio users who have successfully applied kernel patches.  Where are the best how-tos and tutorials for this? Thanks, Paul in Seatte