OK, Ive tried some more experiments and here are the results. This looks like a permission problem somewhere, but I havent a clue where. I have run f9 with and without the two modules alsa-plugins-pulseaudio and libflashsupport, whose names have come up in previous messages in this thread. It seems that aplay wont work at all without the modules, but Firefox will as root but not me. With the modules intalled aplay has problems for both me and root, while again FireFox will work for root, but not me. Here is the output from the tests: =================== without alsa-plugins-pulseaudio libflashsupport [reg@deneb AU]$ aplay wheee.au ALSA lib confmisc.c:768:(parse_card) cannot find card '0' ALSA lib conf.c:3513:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_card_driver returned error: No such ALSA lib confmisc.c:392:(snd_func_concat) error evaluating strings ALSA lib conf.c:3513:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_concat returned error: No such file ALSA lib confmisc.c:1251:(snd_func_refer) error evaluating name ALSA lib conf.c:3513:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer returned error: No such file o ALSA lib conf.c:3985:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such file or directory ALSA lib pcm.c:2184:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM default aplay: main:583: audio open error: No such file or directory [root@deneb AU]# aplay wheee.au Playing Sparc Audio 'wheee.au' : Mu-Law, Rate 8000 Hz, Mono Firefox as me, no audio as root, WORKS FINE ===================== with alsa-plugins-pulseaudio libflashsupport [reg@deneb AU]$ aplay weee.au *** PULSEAUDIO: Unable to connect: Connection refused *** Is your sound server running? *** See: http://www.pulseaudio.org/wiki/Troubleshooting aplay: main:583: audio open error: Connection refused [root@deneb AU]# aplay wheee.au *** PULSEAUDIO: Unable to connect: Connection refused *** Is your sound server running? *** See: http://www.pulseaudio.org/wiki/Troubleshooting aplay: main:583: audio open error: Connection refused Firefox as me, no audio as root, first 'General Error' in Graphics winodow, kill restart and WORKS FINE. ============================ Does this bring anything to mind from anyone who actually has this stuff running (either with or without pulseaudio) -- Reg.Clemens reg@xxxxxxx -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines