Mark Panen wrote: > Strange OSS is included in XMMS and works, do you mean the alsamixer > volume control or is there another volume control ? Point of fact: OSS *was* part of the kernel. ALSA, the ordained successor, includes emulation for OSS, so programs like xmms can continue to work. So xmms uses the OSS API. It doesn't include OSS, any more than Firefox for Windows includes Win98. James. -- James Wilkinson | We watched a friend's "Armageddon" DVD ... Much of the Exeter Devon UK | plot (ahem) revolves around machinery that persistently E-mail address: james | breaks, which felt entirely familiar. I can't resist @westexe.demon.co.uk | adding that this resulted in machinery that was more | realistic than the characters. -- Telsa Gwynne's Diary.