Argh. been trying to get sound working on my machine here, so I can enjoy the sweet strains of automatic weapons fire while playing lxdoom... but without much luck. :( if I try to play something with xmms; it complains that it can't open /dev/dsp. /dev/dsp is owned by group 'audio', so I added myself to group 'audio'. if I try starting xmms then; it doesn't work at all. no window appears; just a new line at the command prompt. am I supposed to be part of group 'audio', in order to make sound work? this is a debian box. I've got a Yamaha 192 sound card... wasn't supported under Linux until recently. it uses the YMF724 chipset. I built the kernel with the ymfpci module (which according to the sounce, is taken from the ALSA ymfpci module, which worked fine for me under 2.2.17); and can modprobe it; but lsmod says that ymfpci is 'unused'. lspci shows: 00:09.0 Multimedia audio controller: Yamaha Corporation YMF-724 (rev 05) hmmm, /proc/interrupts seems to say that both eth0 and ymfpci share an interrupt. could this be a problem? hassles like these are why I avoided sound for so long. ;) Carl Soderstrom -- Network Engineer Real-Time Enterprises (952) 943-8700