Hello all, I've been recording radio shows (using sox) all this time without any single problem. Suddenly I'm now unable to to record them. The only different thing I'm doing now is that I log out from KDE before leaving my house in the morning. When I arrive from work at night I now notice that nothing is being recorded. (I have a cron job scheduled at 4pm to record show). Before this, I always left my KDE session open. Today I did a test...I sshed to my home around the time the show was going to be recorded ...and I typed: aumix -q and I got "error opening mixer ". I even tried playing an mp3 file from command line (using mpg123) and I got the following error: ALSA lib confmisc.c:672:(snd_func_card_driver) cannot find card '0' Is there like a timeout for the sound module? If it's not being used for a certain time...will it be unloaded? How come this never happend while I had my KDE session going? What does KDE do in order to make the sound-module loaded all the time? I'll appreciate your comments. Thanks, Jorge