That was the issue (MIDI not working within Gnome). It looks like I had disabled the "avahi-daemon" which Fedora 8 needs for some of the sound functions. After I re-enabled this service, everything works great. Thank you for your help.

Hello: I am trying to get DOSBox running on a Fedora 8 box, using Gnome desktop environment. My sound is working fine in Fedora (Gnome). But, when I fire up DOSBox and try to run any game with sound, I get nothing. The games detect the sound card in DOSBox (sb16), but where it should be playing …