can you recheck this with KDE 2.1 beta2 please? kmix will be able to use = OSS=20 and ALSA concurrently then. This will probably fix your problems. kmix in= =20 beta1 and older was often compiled with ALSA support, but OSS drivers. Th= is=20 resulted in an empty kmix main window. Schimmi --=20 I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. T= hen=20 I realized who was telling me this.