Problem using Midi input

Hello,
I'm using java.sound to get MIDI messages from a "physical" midi input.
I get a rather strange behaviour, since some time, the "Midi input" get stuck, and I don't get message from the input.
To be clearer: everything works as intended : I open the device, I get incoming messages... and sometimes, the incoming messages are "lost". If I try to close the corresponding MIDI device, my program freeze... No exception are raised, my program is not CPU consumming, and I'm not able to determine the conditions that leads to this behaviour.
I'm using the last JRE under windows (XP).
I tried the MidiInDump example from jsressource, and I get a similar behaviour.
My problem now is that I don't know what to do to find out the problem. Is there a way to diagnose this kind of problem?
The MIDI interface I use is a "generic" one, that is, it used the standard MIDI driver from windows (no proprietary driver installed)...
Is there a way to size the incoming MIDI buffer?
Any clue?
Any suggestion to track the problem would be grealty appreciated.

Holly,
Have you opened the Audio MIDI Setup app on your mac? It's found in your Launchpad app (on your doc) and Other folder it should be in there. Make sure your MIDI keyboard is recognized and configured for the mac. Also look at your MIDI settings within Logic as well.

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