more oss-devices 0: [0- 0]: mixer 1: : sequencer 2: [0- 2]: raw midi 3: [0- 3]: digital audio 4: [0- 4]: digital audio 5: [0- 5]: digital audio 8: : sequencer 9: [0- 9]: raw midi 12: [0-12]: digital audio 13: [0-13]: seq-virmidi 14: [0-14]: seq-virmidi more devices 0: [0] : control 1: : sequencer 6: [0- 0]: mixer 8: [0- 0]: raw midi 9: [0- 1]: seq-virmidi 10: [0- 2]: seq-virmidi 16: [0- 0]: digital audio playback 24: [0- 0]: digital audio capture 25: [0- 1]: digital audio capture 26: [0- 2]: digital audio capture 33: : timer Note: above I have also snd-card-virmidi loaded and sequencer (=midi) is already active. This would not be needed to test playing of wav-files.