All of a sudden (maybe related to installation of gstreamer a few days ago?) I get no sound output at all. I've double and triple checked all of the options in kmix, and the sound controls in various programs (amarok, realplayer, mplayer, etc ...) but nowhere can I find a setting that gives me sound output. All of these programs appear to be playing the media I select. I can start and stop and I see sound level readings and what not. Is there some super-secret "master setting" somewhere that would allow me to get sound back, again? Suse 10.0 Peter -- War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, The lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade, And, to those royal murderers, whose mean thrones Are bought by crimes of treachery and gore, The bread they eat, the staff on which they lean. -- Percy Bysshe Shelly http://www.the-brights.net