Hi, I have an odd problem with alsa version 0.9.0rc1 and kernel 2.4.18. I am using speak freely the version that is on the speakup cvs server and when I press the space bar to talk it says /dev/mixer, no such device. I upgraded alsa from version 0.9.0beta7 and ran in the drivers directory ./snddevices. The snd-emu10k1 module and all others for my setup are loaded as before but when I do a ls on /dev/mixer it says that file is there but bash says no such device or speak freely when audio is sent and received. What should I do to fix this problem? All users are in group root who will need the sound card. bye -- http://users2.ev1.net/~nick6 Home of Chihuahua Radio, the internet radio station that I run. I am also on speak freely from www.speakfreely.org, you can talk to me by telling speak freely to go to gawronski.dns2go.com. I also am on msn messenger from http://messenger.msn.com, my email address is ngawc at hotmail.com.