When I got the sound of silence, mplayer and firefox were using a "sound card" to which I had not attached speakers. Are your speakers attached where they should be? If so, is there some other audio device, broadly defined, to which audio data might be sent? Here is advice I got from Tom Horsley: > Don't know if it will only work in gnome, but the > tool is named gnome-volume-control. Goto hardware > tab and select profile "off" for the device you > want pule to ignore. It works under KDE. -- Michael hennebry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx "Pessimist: The glass is half empty. Optimist: The glass is half full. Engineer: The glass is twice as big as it needs to be." -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines