I've been playing with my sound card and new cd-rw. i can get sounds when i play a CD and when i run sndconfig, but nothing with any other app. is there a way to sniff these applications and see what they are using as far as drivers/output for sound? i tried top but there are too many other processes running to tell. i'd like to get sound working for the rest of my desktop. thanks -- Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of DOS, and danced the skies on Linux silvered wings. http://pfrostie.freeservers.com/cad-tastrafy/ //www.freelists.org/list/cad-linux