Hi Robert Rati, Congradulations for your success! Now, if you'd be kind enought to share with the rest of us ( who are having similiar problems ), how it was done, we'd be most grateful. If not, your success is of no use to us, its a one man victory. Until I can get my sound device to speakto me under linux, with the setup I presently have; I'll stick with what the sages say, and look for relief elsewhere. Bert