I couldn't find a better way to tell Gaim to use ALSA, so I'm using that, and it's working fine. BTW, I'd like to know what approach did you use to have Gaim using ALSA, and how it is better compared to setting "custom" sound and telling it to use "aplay|aplayer %s" in the preferences. >From the Gaim FAQ: http://gaim.sourceforge.net/faq.php#q21 Gaim now uses libao, so I simply create ~/.libao and that should work. I have not tried the "custom" approach yet. I have yet to verify that this Gaim trick work when I get home :) Cheers, Hesty __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - Send 10MB messages! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail