Hello. This question may properly belong in some other forum, but having scanned some of the archives & found nothing relevant, then perhaps someone on here may be able to give a hint? The problem is missing KRec:In and KRec:out entries in arts Audio-manager. I gather from the KRec handbook that these should be present after the other aRts set-up procedures described there have been carried out. This is true for both this machine which is running KDE 3.1.4 (self built) on what was originally a Mandrake 8.2 and for the other machine which is running an essentially `vanilla' version of Mandrake 9.1 This machine has an on-board EP 1370 A few brief trials seem to indicate that sound on this machine at least ONLY operates when aRts is running, and that Krecord will initiate aRts on invocation. There does not then, on the face of it seem to be any way of running WITHOUT aRts (which ISTR on could with previous versions of Krecord - not used it for quite a while y'see) The question is then : is there any way of introducing the two required missing channels KRec:in ; KRec:out of for that matter of finding out why they are not present in the first place? Any advice gratefully received Regards, RJP -- RJP Mail: <r.j.p_me@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> || <rjp@xxxxxxxxxxxx> RJP Web <http://sedric.co.uk>. || <http://www.apum26.dsl.pipex.com> ___________________________________________________ . Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.