Greetings; HO laptop, dv5320us, light scribe cd/dvd writer drive. FC5-i386 installed. When I insert an audio cd, it eventially asks me what I want to do I clicked on play. But that app, although it goes thru the motions (I think it was Kscd) is silent, and none of the input switches and buttons in kmix will do anything but bring up circuit noise, no audio seems to be making it from the cd reader to the rest of the system. When I looked in /media to see if hal or udev had created a device there, it had not done so. grip, noatun and a couple other apps are all similarly blessed with silence. Any good ideas as to what to check next? -- Cheers, Gene People having trouble with vz bouncing email to me should add the word 'online' between the 'verizon', and the dot which bypasses vz's stupid bounce rules. I do use spamassassin too. :-) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.