-----Original Message----- Sound problem running alsa-oss without pulseaudio have been FIXED today with release of 2.6.31-2-rt. So update kernel to that. I assume there was a corresponding fix with the generic kernel. Yay! The brief improvement that allowed straight alsa to be used so well has not come back but maybe it's only a matter of time. -----New Message------- Sound problem has REAPPEARED with 2.6.31-3-rt. SIGH. So don't update to this one if you use OSS. Back to the bug report.