Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. "find *eawpatches*" didn't find a directory, but it did find... /usr/portage/media-sound/timidity-eawpatches
I emerged timidity-eawpatches. At the end of the emerge was this message... * You must run 'timidity-update -g -s eawpatches' to set this * patchset as the default system patchset. I did that, and timidity now plays just fine. I wonder if there was a similar message at the end of the timidity++ emerge. I did a couple of packages at once, so if there was a message, I missed it. -- Walter Dnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> My musings on technology and security at http://tech_sec.blog.ca -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list