> i've just intalled it mdk.rpm installed it but the app don't appear > : terminal said : snd_ctl_open: No such file or directory Maybe your soundcard doesn't have the envy24 chipset then. > Strange that they don't think about vumeters in Audacity... The Audacity developers do talk about it quite a lot, but the program is a general purpose audio tool and not everyone records from live sources. Cross-platform, quite a few mixer utilities have level meters, so they aren't always needed within the recording application itself. Cheers Daniel