i wish i could answer your question but my laptop does not have the digital stuff hooked up so i so not know about it i have an excellent ess maestroNUMBER which oss supports pretty lame so i was forced to learn about alsa i have used these commands to explore alsa and my chip arecord l list devices arecord l list pcm decices i get some output like this arecord l card NUMBER maestroNUMBER ess allegro pci device NUMBER allegro allegro subdevices NUMBER NUMBER subdevice NUMBER subdevice NUMBER arecord l pcm list snip craploads of output i noticed that the output from this commands kind of maps to what the alsamixer or gamix have for what it is worth here is what i have in modules conf for my sound stuff alsa portion alias char major NUMBER snd oss free portion alias char major NUMBER soundcore alsa portion alias snd card NUMBER snd maestroNUMBER oss free portion alias sound slot NUMBER snd card NUMBER oss free portion card NUMBER alias sound service NUMBER NUMBER snd mixer oss bad alias sound service NUMBER NUMBER snd seq oss alias sound service NUMBER NUMBER snd pcm oss bad alias sound service NUMBER NUMBER snd seq oss alias sound service NUMBER NUMBER snd pcm oss alsa options optional options snd snd_major NUMBER snd_cards_limit NUMBER snd_device_mode NUMBER options snd maestroNUMBER snd_index NUMBER snd_id maestroNUMBER snd_amp_gpio NUMBER oss options optional alias snd card NUMBER off alias snd card NUMBER off alias snd card NUMBER off alias sound slot NUMBER off alias sound service NUMBER NUMBER off preserve mixer settings post install usr sbin alsactl restore maestroNUMBER pre remove usr sbin alsactl store maestroNUMBER post install usr sbin alsactl restore pre remove usr sbin alsactl store hope that helps good luck lance lance_tt bellsouth net wrote hello thanks for these rpms i removed the binary built from source tar gz and installed your srpm of gamix one quick question is there a way to switch between digital out and analog out with the alsa driver and utilities or for that matter with gamix i know with the oss drivers i was using it was as simple as emu config d for digital and emu config a for analog with the emu tools package for sblive i noticed there is sb live analog digital output jack in alsamixer but haven t figured out the key to use if this is the right control in mixer also i tried to expand gamix to display all possible controls but it defaults back to wave and music with lfe center surround and playback under wave this is how i control output of front and rear speakers for digital out surround and playback under music there are two controls but unresponsive i have a tuner and cassette deck hooked up to an audio video switch that goes into line in on the soundcard again with the oss drivers it was as simple as emu config d and emu config a digital out for anything coming from the computer analog out for the tuner and cassette deck i don t know if this is necessary to switch inbetween to get line in to work or not but an expansion of gamix would help where i could see all the controls any help would be greatly appreciated and thanks again for the gamix rpms kind regards lance linux one stanza tip lost sub command line shortcuts clear lost NUMBER tired of typing in clear every time you want the screen to be cleared press ctrl l this works for most shells except for ash bsh and ksh rtorvi vsnl net that s angle as in geometry _______________________________________________ rpm list mailing list rpm list freshrpms net URL 