OK - I solved *part* of the problem... seems I had a hardware problem. The BostonAcoustics speaker system I tried to use has a plug that's different from most - it has only one "ring", whereas others have two (2)... I plugged another speaker system in, and I can now get sounds out. Yipeeee! Next problem: I've got a bunch of mp3's I ripped that just won't play in *any* of the players on this machine. I did install an mp3 codec on this machine - in fact I installed it so I could rip mp3's on this machine using "Sound Juicer". However, the following players don't respond to the "play" button when I have an mp3 selected: Audio Player Kaboodle Music Player Noatun I realize the IP issues with mp3's, but since I've installed the mp3 codec, why won't any of these players work? Thnx, Jay On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 00:18 -0500, Jay Moore wrote: > On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 00:17 -0400, Tony Nelson wrote: > > > > >ANy ideas are appreciated... everything else on this system works > > >perfectly w/ FC3, and it seems the sound chip used is mainstream... I'm > > >stumped! > > > > Type "alsamixer" in a terminal window and twiddle all the settings -- > > sometimes they aren't where they seem to be. Maybe turn on digital output. > > Maybe run gst-register-0.8. > > Tried that... still no joy :( > > --