On Sun, 3 Sep 2006 19:30:15 -0700 (PDT) Leo Liu <kkl_sg at yahoo.com> wrote: > alsa-init: using device default > [AO SDL] Samplerate: 48000Hz Channels: Stereo Format s16le You seem to be missing the rest of the output. There's no error message so far. Though I can suggest setting $HOME and adding -nosound .