I got no answer to my question about sound in f8 working only as root, so let me ask the question a different way. This could only happen if some vital component in processing sound has the wrong permissions. Could any one suggest what that component could be? This is very frustrating. -- ======================================================================= To the systems programmer, users and applications serve only to provide a test load. ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx