--- Clay Fandre <clay at fandre.com> wrote: > What type of modem is it? Is there any software that goes with it? It's an AOpen FM56-ITU/2 fax/modem/voice (ISA). Has a good record under Linux. Came with Windows voice mail software. > What I do is use the caller-id features of my modem, along with cid. > I wrote a script to monitor the cid log, and if a call comes in from > a certain number I have it dialup to my ISP. I use the dial-on-demand > features of pppd, so it will automatically disconnect after a period > of inactivity. Not a bad idea, except I don't have caller id, and I can't guarantee that I will be calling from a limited set of phones. Eric Stanley's suggestion of using xdiald led me to a couple of web sites that discuss how to use vgetty for such a purpose. Alas, vgetty is a monstrous beast and it will take me a while to wade through everything. Actually, that leads me to an unrelated question. While reading about vgetty, I thought, "Hey, I might as well try to get the voice mail functions working." Well, that includes recording a message. I suddenly realized that my microphone doesn't work properly. Actually, there's a range of problems. First, I couldn't find a decent sound recorder that supports aRts (I'm running KDE 2.2.1). Killing aRts and trying other recorders (such as grecord) doesn't work either, even if I start esd. Without any sound driver, grecord makes files that just hiss and crackle. I've checked the volume setting for the microphone, but can't figure out what's wrong. Anyone know when a unified sound standard will appear for Linux? I'm tired of swapping aRts and esd. I heard a while back that aRts was going to be the standard, but so far, nothing. Grr. :Peter