On Tue, 2008-02-12 at 15:17 -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote: > 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. Do you have the ConsoleKit service running? In a nutshell - it's used to determine who's currently using the console, so they get to own devices that they need to use. -- [tim@bigblack ~]$ uname -ipr 2.6.23.14-64.fc7 i686 i386 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.