I've noticed that my sound seems to go away sometimes. Most of the time it seems to be fine, but occasionally when I try to run a program that uses sound I get "Error opening PCM device default: Connection refused" Restarting pulseaudio seems to get it going again: pulseaudio -k ; pulseaudio -D --log-target=syslog When pulseaudio starts, /var/log/messages tells me: QUOTE: We are not in group 'pulse-rt' and PolicyKit refuse to grant us privileges. Dropping SUID again. Dec 23 15:08:14 mutt pulseaudio[21344]: main.c: For enabling real-time schedulin g please acquire the appropriate PolicyKit privileges, or become a member of 'pu lse-rt', or increase the RLIMIT_NICE/RLIMIT_RTPRIO resource limits for this user . Dec 23 15:08:14 mutt pulseaudio[21344]: main.c: High-priority scheduling enabled in configuration but not allowed by policy. END OF QUOTE pulse, pulse-access and pulse-rt groups all exist on this computer but I'm not a member of any of them. Again, though, my sound mostly works. Would I gain something by joining these groups? I've done some reading about this and the purpose of these groups is still not clear to me. -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www.melvilletheatre.com DRY CLEANER BUSINESS FOR SALE ~ http://www.canadadrycleanerforsale.com -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines