Well, I'm running alsa built into the kernel. When I recompiled and took out the oss entries under alsa and changed from soundcard.pmo to alsa.pmo, my output became choppy and kind of with clicking in the background for an ogg file. Using soundcard.pmo I now get the message about can not open the audio device, which I imagine would be correct since oss isn't present. Anybody else had the problem with chopped sound in zinf with alsa.pmo? If I don't solve this i'll have to put the oss entries under alsa back in the kernel and let it run on oss. Thanks. So, as in Keith's case, it must still be trying to play through oss. I'm now re-emerging zinf in gentoo specifically with the alsa USE flag to see if that makes any difference, though I assumed alsa was built into the package since I don't see any alsa-plugin in gentoo.
