MS-6178 and MIDI via onboard game-port

Two questions:
1) Does anyone out there have experiences with sending/receiving MIDI-messages via the game-port of this motherboard. All audio-functions are on-board (Ac'97, Soundmax driver). Manual says it's possible, but I've never succeeded in using the gameport as a midi-device. The best thing i've ever get out of it was some kind of distorted midi-activity which caused a lot of errors...
There is nothing wrong with the drivers. No hardware-conflicts whatsoever. Midi-function activated in Bios...
Isn't it Soundblaster-compatible?
2) Suppose I disable the onboard audio in the MS-6178 (via Bios and jumper on Mobo): do I disable then the gameport too or should it work independently ?
Thanks,
Geert Geysen, Belgium
MS-6178, Intel Celeron 1 Ghz (Coppermine)
512 MB Ram
WindowsME

Try the patch from here
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