On Sun, Aug 25, 2002 at 01:53:47PM -0400, Wesley Allen wrote: wallen> And Mandrake uses.....ALSA...oh well, I'll find another outlet! wallen> Thanks anyway gang! Not yet... Check if you have the OSS compatibility modules loaded: /sbin/lsmod | grep oss You should see something like this: snd-seq-oss 27552 0 (autoclean) snd-seq-midi-event 5440 0 (autoclean) [snd-seq-oss] snd-seq 43596 2 (autoclean) [snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi-event] snd-pcm-oss 41540 0 (autoclean) snd-mixer-oss 10944 0 (autoclean) [snd-pcm-oss] snd-pcm 68192 0 [snd-pcm-oss snd-intel8x0] snd-seq-device 5480 0 [snd-seq-oss snd-seq snd-rawmidi] snd 36200 4 [snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi-event snd-seq snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss snd-intel8x0 snd-pcm snd-timer snd-ac97-codec snd-mpu401-uart snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device] The 'seq' devices are the ones that run the sequencer. Never used devfs, but I've always had to make the sound devices for ALSA manually: cd /usr/share/doc/alsa-driver-0.9.0rc2 ./snddevices That will create /dev/sequencer for you, too. Also, make sure your sequencer is unmuted in alsamixer. -- Charles R. Anderson <cra@wpi.edu> / http://angus.ind.wpi.edu/~cra/ PGP Key ID: 49BB5886 Fingerprint: EBA3 A106 7C93 FA07 8E15 3AC2 C367 A0F9 49BB 5886