Hi! First: WHY DON'T YOU USE ALSAMIXER, AMIXER OR ALSAMIXERGUI??? They work fine with alsa. There are some differences between alsa-oss and the real oss. I haven't looked at aumix and the like for a long time. So I can't tell what has changed. but you should try it. "alsamixer" is ncurses base like aumix. "amix" is commandline-based, good for scripting. alsamixergui is gtk based. I think it is possible to build alsa into the kernel, but I don't know how. Anyway, why would you want to do it? 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