Are you using devfs with Slackware 9? If so, make sure that your /etc/devfsd.conf file is setup properly.<BR><BR>On a sidenote, what are the actual advantages of using ALSA? I used ALSA on my laptop ...

I was thinking about gentoo linux, and it seems nice, but I've been using Slackware since 1998, and feel pretty attached. Slackware is a nice distribution, but I would like the benefits of compiling ...