hi! while i'm at it, there's one more thing that's been bothering me... i installed the alsa drivers for my soundcard, and all works nice now, except, the cannels are muted after every restart...that is i need to run gmmix (and it does remember the volume levels from the last session) in order to hear sound...this is strange and it's not really a solution to start gmix on each reboot =) advice is greatly appreciated! thanks, vester