Hello all, After fiddling around with .asoundrc, I finally got dmix-ing working. I can now have several streams of sound playing at the same time. No intention of gloating here, especially since a number of people are still having problem with sound. :) :) My next step is to have all my instant messaging to use alsa (so that I can have this multiple stream stuff). Gaim seems to use libao, which can easily be told to use alsa. Amsn uses play and I'm stumped with this. How do I tell play to use alsa driver. Play only has --device=XXX switch and no --driver. Also, is there any other sound player except play that can use alsa driver? It only needs to be able to play wav file. Cheers, Hesty __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Read only the mail you want - Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail