> I need to figure out why oass is making it work. Here is part of man aoss: Probably just means gmfsk development is behind the times, and needs some work to update to the ALSA system, instead of the obsolete OSS sounds system. How active is gmfsk development ? You should perhaps poke those incharge to find out what their plans are. Eventually I presume OSS will go completely (?, since I'm not sure here) so the aoss trick will no longer work. Chris