Dale: >The difference is: gst-plugins-alsa and alsamixergui.
None of them makes a difference. Sigh. >I just wonder if alsamixer has something muted? Have you ran >alsamixer to check it? Yes. All fine. Remember, that the notification works with esound. And a muted channel would not cause an uncaught exception in the error console of SM when pressing 'Play' in the Preferences of SM. ;) I do not like alsamixergui at all. alsamixer is better. For me. Now i have to make a break. Time to sleep. Till later then. :) Hartmut -- Usenet-ABC-Wiki http://www.usenet-abc.de/wiki/ Von Usern fuer User :-)