As mentioned, I have also discovered that the GUI mixer was calling the show. Without a /dev/mixer to work with, neither gnomeradio or kradio's sound volume controls work at all. But you can control the volume from the mixer utility. If you want to turn the radio down and listen to something else, well, kill the radio program. And make sure it does a mute on exit. I've tried to do the modprobe, but I get FATAL: Module snd_mixer_oss not found. I put in the dashes as you described. I searched the system for snd-mixer-oss, but the only ones I find were from older kernel versions (2.6.27-7, 2.6.28-11, 2.6.32-24). I do "apt-cache search snd-mixer-oss", and no go. Can you look up what package those .ko files are in? I've tried a few, but no luck, ie. oss4-base linux-sound-base (already loaded), not even in linux-backports-modules-alsa-2.6.35-22... A ray of hope shines in a dark and dreary wilderness! murf On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 12:52 AM, ...