diff -Naur soundmodem-0.5/soundcard/main.c soundmodem-0.5-tve/soundcard/main.c
--- soundmodem-0.5/soundcard/main.c	Sun Nov 26 16:29:59 2000
+++ soundmodem-0.5-tve/soundcard/main.c	Wed Oct 17 19:51:10 2001
@@ -287,7 +287,7 @@
 		getparam(doc, audio, ioparams_soundcard, par);
 		state->audioio = ioopen_soundcard(&samplerate, mode, par);
 	}
-	if (state->audioio)
+	if (!state->audioio)
                 logprintf(MLOG_FATAL, "cannot start audio\n");
 	for (chan = state->channels; chan; chan = chan->next) {
 		if (chan->demod) {