On Sat, 24 Mar 2007 18:58:42 +0100 Nigel Henry <cave.dnb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > would like to > find a fix for the machine that has the Ensoniq card. What kind of a fix do you have in mind? If the soundcard is physically incable of playing the audio that you want played, then I don 't see what you can fix. You could check the status of /dev/dsp somehow and if it returns busy then don't play the sound effect, I suppose, but that doesn't achieve the action that you want, i.e. play a sound effect before starting some application. -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www.melvilletheatre.com