David Boles: >> gnome-volume-manager > Edit > Preferences > Select tracks to be visible >> >> Maybe the settings for one, or more, of these it causing your problem. Karl Larsen: > Could be. But I don't know how to check the gnone-volume-manager. I > even tried it in a root Xterm window and no joy. Crossing over onto the wrong thing again, "control" not "manager". gnome-volume-control is the audio mixer control GUI. gnome-volume-manager is to do with disc volumes (mounting drives). -- (This box runs FC7, my others still run FC 4, 5, 6, & CentOS 5.0, in case that's important to the thread.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.