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Robin Cornelius wrote: > in alsamixer do you have any other "special" fader controls, sounds > like a strange question but on my old sound blaster i had a load of > post routing faders that could do horrible things and stop the sound > completley or just force it all out of a surround speaker. Alsamixer has :- PCM Front Line CD Mic IEC958 Capture Capture The first five are on full and not muted. The last two are on 0, IEC958 seems to have no fader but is unmuted. > Out of intrest you don't have a OSS sound driver running do you? How do I find out? What > dev entries do you have related to sound what does ls /dev/sound/ or > /dev/snd/ show you and do you have any /dev/dsp /dev/dsp1 etc entries. > j1@j1-laptop:~$ ls /dev/snd controlC0 pcmC0D0c pcmC0D0p pcmC0D1p pcmC0D2c timer j1@j1-laptop:~$ ls -l /dev/dsp crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 3 2007-02-09 16:24 /dev/dsp > If you do have a /dev/dsp what does "cat somewavefile.wav > /dev/dsp" > do (in fact you can use any file it just makes a horrible noise". j1@j1-laptop:~$ cat /usr/share/sounds > /dev/dsp bash: /dev/dsp: Device or resource busy I wonder what's keeping it busy? James -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html