On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 11:38:43AM -0500, Bill Mills-Curran wrote: subssn594> I played briefly with the alsasound service startup without success. subssn594> So I went back to my /etc/rc.d/rc.local method. I'm not crazy about subssn594> it, but it works. Maybe there is some other config that was necessary subssn594> to use the alsasound start script, but I have limited play time. Have you set up your /etc/modules.conf according to the documentation? Mine looks like this: # ALSA native device support alias char-major-116 snd options snd snd_cards_limit=1 alias snd-card-0 snd-card-intel8x0 options snd-card-intel8x0 snd_ac97_clock=41231 alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss # ALSA OSS/Free emulation support alias char-major-14 soundcore alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0 alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss Your sound-card-0 and the line right after it will be different, of course. subssn594> I did install xmms, and had some "visual" success. At first, I could subssn594> even see the audio sound levels on the xmms main screen, but then I subssn594> somehow messed it up. In addition, I haven't had any success getting subssn594> sound. Note that I haven't played with MP3 files at all, so I may be subssn594> missing some critical setup. I took a very quick look at esound, but subssn594> there again, limited play time. Any suggestions to put me on the subssn594> right path? ALSA keeps all channels muted by default. Have you run alsamixer and unmuted the channels? -- 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