-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hynek, and another illustration. The sound is heard immediately before the final line below, the return of the cq prompt: cq:~# invoke-rc.d speech-dispatcher start Starting Speech Dispatcher: speech-dispatcher. cq:~# swift hello world oss_audio: failed to open audio device /dev/dsp oss_audio: failed to open audio device /dev/dsp cq:~# invoke-rc.d speech-dispatcher stop Stopping Speech Dispatcher: speech-dispatcher. cq:~# swift hello world cq:~# and the same for several other apps using OSS, but apps using alsa continue to work fine, such as mplayer, aplay, and strangely enough, play itself. Chuck - -- The Moon is Waning Gibbous (85% of Full) My new web site location is at: http://hallenbeck.ftml.net College, that fountain of knowledge, where everyone goes to drink. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFG2GXZ0maTgpPXM9cRAj7QAJ9GB6nAzomm/cgz8AJzecbOsT3dfACgsz7f nR7ZpKcs6opXafoK19LCKoc= =qnrd -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----