hi again.
right..from a tiny tiny scrap of info i found online I did an rmmod of by TVCard modules (i was getting snd: unable to register OSS mixer device 0:0 etc etc errors when doing 'modprobe snd-pcm-oss' ) for those that need/want to know, here were my modules.conf settings for the TVCard --------8< cut here-------8<------------ # i2c alias char-major-89 i2c-dev options i2c-core i2c_debug=1 options i2c-algo-bit bit_test=1 # bttv alias char-major-81 bttv alias char-major-81-0 bttv options bttv radio=2 card=10 bttv_verbose=1 options msp3400 debug=2 once=1 simple=1 dolby=1 pre-install bttv modprobe -k btaudio; modprobe -k msp3400; modprobe -k tuner #LIRC - the Infra-Red Controller alias char-major-61 lirc_haup --------8< cut here-------8<------------ now OSS works beautifully with ALSA on this ESS AudioPCI 1371 card so...does this mean I cant use my soundcard at the same time or do I have to initialise the ALSA system BEFORE running the TVCard system? anyway, off to listen to some net-broadcast streams for a while whilst pondering the best way to get the sound system initialized upon bootup :-) alan _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user