Hi, I was enjoying my FC2 and sound for some weeks now. Using file-roller to open a zip file containing 3 pixs, file-rooler crashed my X sessions, I mean I did not have any more icons (Computer, etc...) on my desktop. Logout : freeze screen . Ctrl-Alt_Backspace Login (gnome as default): same result. Reboot : My desktop is back but my sound is gone. I checked alsamixer : the levels are OK. I have no more gnome sound. No more evolution sound. I think no sound at all ;-) Even the testing sound card does not work any more. Sound card driver : snd-end1371 modprobe.conf alias eth0 8139too alias snd-card-0 snd-ens1371 install snd-ens1371 /sbin/modprobe pcspkr && /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-ens1371 && /usr/sbin/alsactl restore >/dev/null 2>&1 || : remove snd-ens1371 { /usr/sbin/alsactl store >/dev/null 2>&1 || : ; }; /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove snd-ens1371 alias usb-controller ehci-hcd alias usb-controller1 uhci-hcd install ipv6 /bin/true I want to say again that everything was working before killing X. No specific message in /var/log/messages or dmesg. If somebody has another idea ... ? Philippe -- Philippe, Chiangmai, Thailand(e)