Hi List, I have had problems in getting the alsa driver 0.5.11 to work with the 2.4.9 kernel. amixer seems to work, but all else fails. When I attempt to run sfb (a Kirk supplied speak freely script) all seems normal until you hit the space bar to talk and the message: "unable to initialize audio channel" is printed and you are dumped back into the shell. This message does NOT seem to be in the Speak Freely source. I have not checked the alsa driver source yet. freeamp and trplayer fail as well. Any suggestions? Compile an earlier kernel maybe? Or am I missing something obvious. /proc/asound looks normal. Jim WB0TFK