I just fixed a number of major bugs in the undocumented linuxaudiodev module. I ended up spending about an hour reading the excellent Open Sound System (OSS) Programmer's Guide to figure out what the module was trying to do and why it wasn't working on my Linux box. After reading the module and the OSS guide, it is clear to me that we need a complete re-write. The module itself is just a wrapper around a bunch of read, write, and ioctl calls. It could all be implemented in pure Python. I propose we develop a Python module for Python 2.1 and call it osslib. There is nothing at all that is Linux-specific about the interface being used. The OSS guide mentions a plethora of platforms that it supports. In the interim, I have fixed some of the most egregious problems. I would appreciate it if Linux users could try out the fixes and the new test case. On my machine it still sounds awful, but at least the sound can be heard. Jeremy