Good morning - Sorry for the long message, but I have been struggling for a couple of weeks to get my sound card back, I'm running 7.1 with the 2.4.2 kernel. I have a Soundblaster 32AWE card and have managed to configure it with ALSA so that I can get sound to work as root. However, I cannot seem to get sound as a normal user. When I execute "aplay -l" as root I get the following: Sound Blaster AWE32/64: 1 [card1] / #0: DSP v4.13 Directions: playback capture duplex Playback subdevices: 1 Capture subdevices: 1 Playback subdevice #0: subdevice #0 Capture subdevice #0: subdevice #0 Howver when I run "aplay -l" as a user, I get back the response that no soundcards were found. If I try to run aplay with a .wav file as a user, this is the response I get: Aplay: version 0.5.10 by Jaroslav Kysela Error: unable to obtain longname: Permission denied In KDE Control Panel, when I look at information on the Sound Card, ALSA sound driver is listed as being loaded, Card Config shows Soundblaster 16, but Audio devices, Synth Devices, and Mixers show "not enabled in config". The MIDI device is listed as MPU-401. If I try RealPlayer, either as root or user, I get an error message that the audio device could not be opened and that it might be in use by another application. As a user, when I start kmix, all I get is an empty box, with no controls showing. However, as root, I get the full range of controls on the mixer. Finally, to confuse things, I can run successfully run KSCD as a user and get sound, but I cannot alsaplayer to work as a user. This is the message I get when I run it on the console: ALSA->open(): Permission denied /usr/lib/alsaplayer/output/libalsa.so failed to load /usr/lib/alsaplayer/output/liboss.so failed to load NOTE: THIS IS THE NULL PLUGIN. YOU WILL NOT HEAR SOUND!! Output plugin: NULL output v1.0 Input plugin: CDDA player v1.0 Input plugin: MikMod player v0.9 Input plugin: MPEG (mpg123) player v0.59r Input plugin: WAV player v1.0 Scope plugin: FFTscope II Scope plugin: FFTscope Scope plugin: Levelmeter Scope plugin: logFFTscope Scope plugin: Monoscope Scope plugin: Spacescope Scope plugin: Synaescope Any suggestions on what I need to do to get this back in working order? Thanks in advance, Harry