[PD-dev] alsa: configure broken? alsa-midi existent?

[Robert Figura]

hi.

using pd-37-0 or pd-37-1test1, trying to use alsa and no other driver i found:
configure accepts arbitrary --enable-anything or --disable-nonexistent but 
ignores them. it always wants portaudio and never alsa.

i tried some more:
$ vi makefile
  (remove everything with portaudio in it or oss)
  (remove -Werror, 2x)
### but:
s_midi.o(.text+0x52): In function `glob_midi_properties':
: undefined reference to `midi_getdevs'
[...]
so there is no midi in pd's alsa? let's start from scratch:

okay oss - can alsa do oss midi emulation? doesn't look alike either:

# lsmod | grep '^[^ ]*oss'
snd-seq-oss            29088   0  (unused)
snd-pcm-oss            38468   0 
snd-mixer-oss          13552   1  [snd-pcm-oss]
# amidi -l                
Device    Name
hw:1,0    Virtual Raw MIDI (16 subdevices)
hw:1,1    Virtual Raw MIDI (16 subdevices)
hw:1,2    Virtual Raw MIDI (16 subdevices)
hw:1,3    Virtual Raw MIDI (16 subdevices)
$ pd --mididev 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8
[...]
opened 0 MIDI input device(s) and 0 MIDI output device(s).

am i right? do i really need the original oss midi loopback module?
is here someone who successfully connected pd-0.37-0 to rosegarden?

thx in advance.

- Robert Figura

P.S.: jack is slow, popping, crackling, and way too complicated for most
      programmers. pity but true.