Hi! Which alsa do you use? What do you want to do? - If it is automated or just textbased recording and effect processing, then it might be quicker to use ecasound. If you are interested in this possibility, mail me directly and I'll tell you a bit about it and I may give you some basic ways to use it for your purpose. Otherwise: Did you compile the oss-emulation for alsa? You said there might be an oss-driver loaded? Do you have more cards? Can't those cards be used via alsa? Generally I think, that the asound.conf isn't the right place to create a /dev/dsp-device. This is a real device, as I understand it. It can be accessed like a real (or close to real) oss device. What you've been doing sounds like just creating alsaplugins. Those are - as I understand it - completely different. They are just for alsa-programs and are based on different mechanism. Kindest regards Julien Julien Patrick Claassen jclaassen@xxxxxx julien@xxxxxxxx http://www.geocities.com/jjs_home SBS C-LAB Fuerstenallee 11 33102 Paderborn Phone: (+49) 5251 60 6060 Fax: (+49) 5251 60 6065 www.c-lab.de