> If I'm to figure out how to apply Thomas's patch to the planet flow, > it might > help me to have a little detail on what YOU did to apply the patch. > given > that I'm semi smart, but have so little information, this might help > a great > deal. :) In the case of the rpm's I built originally for Matt B, I used Fernando's .spec files from the Planet src.rpms, editing them to point to the more recent CVS sources I had downloaded, also cleaning out references to patches which were no longer relavent. In this case you could simply add an entry for the new patch in the spec, you will see others there as syntax examplees. Once you have the spec edited (in /usr/src/redhat/SPEC) and the sources and patches in the right place (/usr/src/redhat/SOURCES), you should, ideally, be able to just rebuild. More info on that can be sound here: http://ccrma-www.stanford.edu/planetccrma/software/recompilealsa.html Kevin __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com