Justin Zygmont wrote : > I tried loading some of the modules in a different order and used > modprobe to load snd.o and snd-cs4231-lib first, then I was suprised to > see that there were no errors. But when I use play to play a wav file it > says: > > sox: Can't open output file '/dev/dsp' : No such device > > the device file exists as it should Did you load the OSS compatibility modules? I really think you should take a quick glance at my ALSA page, since apparently you haven't already : http://freshrpms.net/docs/alsa/ Matthias -- Clean custom Red Hat Linux rpm packages : http://freshrpms.net/ Raw Hide 20030622 running Linux kernel 2.4.20-20.1.2013.nptl Load : 0.39 0.49 0.52