Hi,
Finally I think I have been able to reproduce the problems Tim had with the Debian package. It seems that it was not the fault of Pablo's ALSA MIDI patch, but a problem with the 2.6 kernel and usage of the -rt flag. (The memory locking on 2.6 seems to be quite different from 2.4 kernels)
I uploaded a new package, with Tim's memlock patch applied and with workarounds for the ALSA midi driver.
Enjoy,
Guenter