Ben Steeves wrote: >> What a mess! > > When asking for help, it is customary not to slam the community from > which you are trying to illicit help. It rarely produces useful > results. Perhaps you should rephrase your rant into questions, be > respectful, and try doing a little research. I wasn't actually asking a question. I was - as the title of the article made clear - ranting. If you don't like rants, I suggest you don't read articles with the word "rant" in them. My hope would be that someone concerned with the sound wizards - as I said, I am not sure of the relative responsibility of Linux, KDE and Fedora - might think to themselves, "Is it really so difficult to configure sound under Fedora/KDE/Linux ?". -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland