Thanks Kyle for the explanation about gmail. I am very new at Linux (two weeks now) and am using this PSKMAIL installation to learn Linux and hope to get PSKMAIL up and running. I have managed to download the PSKMAIL server CD and do a live install to my hard disk. This was the only way I could get audio working on my old Thinkpad 600E. I now have PSKserver installed and audio works fine making system noises- For example, when I open KPSK I get the sound of glass breaking out of my speakers but I get a message that reads " Unable to open audio device" and KPSK does not open. When I open GMFSK I get a message that says "sound open for read: opensnd: open:/dev/dsp: No such file or directory". When I close this error message gmfsk is on the desktop and I can activate it ( Send CQ) but I get no sound out. As I say, The sound works as I get system sounds but none out of these two programs. I had to do a special install of the sound drivers using alsaconf and it found the drivers for the Thinkpad 600 and installed them. I know the program is telling me what to do in the error message but being new to linux I don't understand. Any help from the list would be appreciated. 73 Bob WD8QLY