I'm still trying to figure my way around Linux, so you'll have to excuse me if I state something obvious... I'm trying to compile Darkice under opensue 11.2. I'm using the darkice tar for v.1 When I try and compile Darkice, it isn't finding my alsa drivers. I'm compiling under 'su'. I've tried to find alsa, and here are the results: find / -name alsa* /usr/src/linux-2.6.31.12-0.2-obj/i386/desktop/include/config/video/em28xx/alsa.h /usr/src/linux-2.6.31.12-0.2-obj/i386/desktop/include/config/video/saa7134/alsa.h /usr/src/linux-2.6.31.12-0.2-obj/i386/desktop/include/config/video/cx231xx/alsa.h /usr/src/linux-2.6.31.12-0.2-obj/i386/desktop/include/config/video/cx88/alsa.h /usr/src/linux-2.6.31.12-0.2-obj/i386/default/include/config/video/em28xx/alsa.h /usr/src/linux-2.6.31.12-0.2-obj/i386/default/include/config/video/saa7134/alsa.h /usr/src/linux-2.6.31.12-0.2-obj/i386/default/include/config/video/cx231xx/alsa.h /usr/src/linux-2.6.31.12-0.2-obj/i386/default/include/config/video/cx88/alsa.h /usr/src/linux-2.6.31.12-0.2-obj/i386/debug/include/config/video/em28xx/alsa.h /usr/src/linux-2.6.31.12-0.2-obj/i386/debug/include/config/video/saa7134/alsa.h /usr/src/linux-2.6.31.12-0.2-obj/i386/debug/include/config/video/cx231xx/alsa.h /usr/src/linux-2.6.31.12-0.2-obj/i386/debug/include/config/video/cx88/alsa.h /usr/src/linux-2.6.31.12-0.2/Documentation/DocBook/alsa-driver-api.tmpl /usr/src/linux-2.6.31.12-0.2/Documentation/sound/alsa /usr/src/linux-2.6.31.12-0.2/sound/aoa/core/alsa.c /usr/src/linux-2.6.31.12-0.2/sound/aoa/core/alsa.h /usr/sbin/alsa-info.sh /usr/sbin/alsaconf /usr/sbin/alsa-init /usr/sbin/alsactl /usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/alsa-utils.mo /usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/alsaconf.mo /usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/alsaconf.mo /usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/alsa-utils.mo /usr/share/doc/packages/alsa-oss /usr/share/doc/packages/alsa /usr/share/doc/packages/alsa/alsa-lib /usr/share/doc/packages/alsa-utils /usr/share/doc/packages/alsa-plugins /usr/share/man/fr/man8/alsaconf.8.gz /usr/share/man/man7/alsactl_init.7.gz /usr/share/man/man8/alsaconf.8.gz /usr/share/man/man1/alsamixer.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/alsactl.1.gz /usr/share/alsa /usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf /usr/share/sounds/alsa /usr/share/susehelp/meta/Development/Libraries/alsa-docs.desktop /usr/share/YaST2/data/alsa_packages.ycp /usr/share/vim/vim72/ftplugin/alsaconf.vim /usr/share/vim/vim72/syntax/alsaconf.vim /usr/lib/scpm/resource_groups/alsasound /usr/lib/alsa-lib /usr/bin/alsamixer find: `/home/Phil/.gvfs': Permission denied /etc/init.d/alsasound linux-zitz:/home/Phil/darkice/darkice-1.0 # When I configure, i'm using the following string: ./configure --with-lame-prefix=/usr/local/lib --with-alsa-prefix=/usr/share/alsa and i tried ./configure --with-lame-prefix=/usr/local/lib --with-alsa-prefix=/usr/lib/alsa-lib Which results in: checking for lame library at /usr/local/lib ... found at /usr/local/lib checking for vorbis libraries at /usr ... configure: WARNING: not found, building without Ogg Vorbis checking for faac library at /usr ... configure: WARNING: not found, building without faac checking for aacplus library at /usr ... configure: WARNING: not found, building without aacplus checking for twolame library at /usr ... configure: WARNING: not found, building without twolame checking for alsa libraries at /usr/share/alsa ... configure: WARNING: not found, building without ALSA support checking for jack libraries at /usr ... configure: WARNING: not found, building without JACK support checking for samplerate libraries at /usr ... configure: WARNING: not found, building libsamplerate support Can someone please help me compile with ALSA, or its it just easier to compile and run Jack? I'm running under KDE and Kmix is using the ALSA drivers - so I'm assuming they are SOMEWHERE on my pc. Thanks for the help. I'll be streaming to an existing Icecast configuration using Lame MP3. Phil