Hi: I tried sflaunch once, on someone else's machine. It crashed the machine. <grin> I'm reliably informed that it's not very good at what it does. anyway, if you have ALSA installed then you don't need it. Just do something like Chris's script and you should be set. Geoff. -- Geoff Shang <gshang10 at scu.edu.au> ICQ number 43634701