When you configure a Linux kernel for your specific system, there is a category of modules you can build which is for multimedia devices such as TV capture cards and radio tuners. I don't own such a card, but the process is the same thing you go through when setting up ALSA. You end up with another device or set of devices in /dev that are probably very similar and in fact may even use some of the common audio and video standard devices such as /dev/dsp and /dev/audio, etc. I once thought I might be involved with a project involving Linux and video capture and was told that the system with the TV card didn't even have to have X running on it. One could start and stop the capture via the command line. If a video card works that way, I would think a radio tuner should also be accessible via the command line and the ioctl control mechanism. You would have to buy a supported tuner card, of course, so you would need to look at the list of modules you can build and buy accordingly. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK Systems Engineer OSU Information Technology Department Network Operations Group _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list