I asked this on the mplayer-users list but haven't got a response; thought somebody here might know. When I run mplayer with an url and >error.txt 2>&1 to see what's happening, although my mplayer seems to be working fine, one thing I see is: AO [oss] I do have alsa compiled into my 2.6.7 kernel and it is detected by mplayer during the configure. the default for alsa in the configure is autodetect so I didn't think I had to specifically enable it but now I'm wondering. should the AO line say something about alsa and if so, what do I do about it? thanks. -- Cheryl "Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also."