yes: I installed hotplug and everything's working... quite nice, since now I finally have sound. but the mixer is a pain, the minimum level is far too high if my neighbours baby is sleeping (in the sense, finally not crying). on the other hand, if this ppc makes enough noise, I don't hear the baby crying...
well, the next step is now to listen to the italian Radio (I live in the Netherlands). I installed hxplay and tried to open the stream, but hxplay tells me that I should try the realplayer... so I installed the realplayer, but it crashes telling me: /usr/local/RealPlayer/realplay.bin: relocation error: /usr/local/RealPlayer/plugins/swfrender.so: undefined symbol: _Z27FlashRendererCreateInstancePP8IUnknown I admit, this time I did not even google the problem. but most of the times I hit i386 stuff instead of ppc... thanks for all the help. Mario