my bad english - i know ;-) i use mplayer in my ia32 chroot (because of the codecs...) but mplayer only used oss and not alsa. so i have done this: # mkdir /var/chroot/sid-ia32/dev/snd # mount -t none -o bind /dev/snd /var/chroot/sid-ia32/dev/snd and it worked because of this i added to my /etc/fstab: /dev/snd /var/chroot/sid-ia32/dev/snd none bind 0 0 perhabs somebody would use alsa in the chroot too and i was able to help