I am not on the local machine (:0) Scenario 1: I use realvnc to remote into my computer at home. Whether I'm at home or away the same scenario. As user I get an error: $ mpg123 -Zz@ /mnt/Music/rnb.m3u decoder: 3DNowExt High Performance MPEG 1.0/2.0/2.5 Audio Player for Layers 1, 2 and 3 version 0.66; written and copyright by Michael Hipp and others free software (LGPL/GPL) without any warranty but with best wishes ALSA lib confmisc.c:769:(parse_card) cannot find card '' ALSA lib conf.c:3510:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_card_driver returned error: No such device ALSA lib confmisc.c:392:(snd_func_concat) error evaluating strings ALSA lib conf.c:3510:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_concat returned error: No such device ALSA lib confmisc.c:1251:(snd_func_refer) error evaluating name ALSA lib conf.c:3510:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer returned error: No such device ALSA lib conf.c:3982:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such device ALSA lib pcm.c:2144:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM default audio_open(): cannot open device default audio: No such file or directory Directory: /mnt/Music/Music/Full Albums/R&B/Carl Thomas/Carl Thomas Discography/Let´s Talk About It/ Playing MPEG stream 1 of 2467: 09 - A Promise.mp3 ... Title: Artist: Carl Thomas Comment: [uN] Album: Let's Talk About It Year: 2004 Genre: R&B MPEG 1.0 layer III, 192 kbits/s, 44100 Hz stereo [audio.c:269] error: Unable to set up output device! Constraints: 44100, 22050 or 11025Hz. Audio device: <none> Audio capabilities: (matrix of [S]tereo or [M]ono support for sample format and rate in Hz) | s16 | u16 | u8 | s8 | ulaw | alaw | -------------------------------------------------------- 8000 | | | | | | | 11025 | | | | | | | 12000 | | | | | | | 16000 | | | | | | | 22050 | | | | | | | 24000 | | | | | | | 32000 | | | | | | | 44100 | | | | | | | 48000 | | | | | | | Scenario 2: I use realvnc to remote into my computer at home. Whether I'm at home or away the same scenario. As root it works fine. I can hear it playing on the desktop in the room, not through the laptop that I'm running the VNC session and I don't want to hear it on this laptop neither. I want it to play through the local desktop :0. When I was running fc5 it was working as I wanted but I don't know what I did to make that happen. # mpg123 -Zz@ /mnt/Music/rnb.m3u decoder: 3DNowExt High Performance MPEG 1.0/2.0/2.5 Audio Player for Layers 1, 2 and 3 version 0.66; written and copyright by Michael Hipp and others free software (LGPL/GPL) without any warranty but with best wishes Directory: /mnt/Music/Music/Full Albums/R&B/Mary J Blige/1997 - Share My World/ Playing MPEG stream 1 of 2467: 14-Get To Know You Better.mp3 ... Title: Get To Know You Better Artist: Mary J. Blige Comment: BlkPoohba's Collection Album: Share My World Year: 1997 Genre: R&B MPEG 1.0 layer III, 128 kbits/s, 44100 Hz joint-stereo [0:05] Decoding of 14-Get To Know You Better.mp3 finished. Directory: /mnt/Music/Music/Full Albums/R&B/Kevon Edmonds/24-7/ Playing MPEG stream 2 of 2467: 04-When I'm With You.mp3 ... Title: When I'm With You Artist: Kevon Edmonds Comment: BlkPoohba's Collection Album: 24 7 Year: 1999 Genre: R&B MPEG 1.0 layer III, 192 kbits/s, 44100 Hz joint-stereo [0:00] Decoding of 04-When I'm With You.mp3 finished.