...are you shure /dev/snd is your sound device? /dev/snd is usually a directory where different device file nodes reside - but not a device file node byself... You may try to check this by ls -al /dev/snd or use the alsa device diretly as hwx:y instead (see darkice docs for examples and aplay -l to get your device ids). good luck. cheers, Niels. --- http://www.dettenbach.de