There are so many sound dameons/systems/drivers that I don't know which combination to choose. I need some advice. Here is my setup: I have machine tarnica which is a router mainly, no monitor, no keyboard, but it has (my only) speakers. And I have machine szrenica (my laptop) where I run a jabber client, and I want it to notify me about messages through the speakers connected to tarnica. And on machine tarnica I have a radio card, and I want to record a regular radio program through it's soundcard with cron (I mean something started with cron). And sometimes like to play ogg files through tarnica speakers. What would be best set of daemons/apps/whatever to make all this work without coliding with each other and without the need to kill something to record from the radio and to be able to get jabber sound notifications no matter what else I do with the soundcard (without using killall). -- Miernik _________________________ xmpp:miernik@amessage.info ___________________/__ tel: +48888299997 __/ mailto:miernik@ctnet.pl Protect Europe from a law-disaster. Petition for a Software Patent Free Europe http://www.noepatents.org/index_html?LANG=en