Fortunately I managed to find a slackware version of vlc legal in the United States for slackware current and have it operational. If I manage to get slackware to speak on the sound card, I'll try building schroedinger.slackbuild once that has been done to satisfy my curiousity about the build and resource useage. Other than that, a build of that package won't be necessary on this system. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- jude <jdashiel at shellworld.net>