I read Patrick's question of the 11 Jun 2002 22:26:05 with interest as it seemed to describe the problem that I am experiencing. I did exactly as recommended by Dieter in his reply (ln -sf /dev/sr0 /dev/cdrom) and since it worked for Patrick, but not for me I must assume that the problem is different. I can get Kscd to run with an audio disc in the CDRom/CDWriter and the display seems to indicate that the CD is running, viz. the timer is running. It shows volume at 59%. However there is no sound output whatsoever. Yast2 Control centre -audio test result is perfect Hardware info identifies the CD-RW correctly and it is shown as /dev/sr0 under both CDRom and scsi details. CDR-W is Plextor 12/10/32A and works properly with data files and in all respects under windows. I am new to Linux and intend to persevere with it, but I would like to get it up and running first in order to explore it. Can anyone help me please? David Rose