Hello, all. DISCLAIMER: I read the Linux Sound HowTo, and it did not appear to mention my particular problem. I searched the archives back to October and did not find this particular problem (and it took a couple of hours for that search...). /DISCLAIMER I haven't tried to play anything for a long time, but today I tried to play a music CD, and sound is broken. I get this message: ********************************************** "Error accessing CDROM device. Please check to make sure cdrom drive support is compiled into the kernel, and that you have permission to access the device. Reason: Permission denied." ********************************************** Now, this strikes me as just a bit misleading (not to say malicious), because: 1) I certainly do have permissions, because I logged in as root and tried it, with the same response, and last I heard, root has every permission in the universe. 2) I just re-configured sound, and the problem is unchanged, even though, during the config (with YaST2) I was able to play the test tune and to adjust the volume. 3) I just mounted and read a CDROM from that drive, so I suspect that I probably do have CDROM support (though why that should matter for audio CDs, I don't know...). In addition, I checked bootlog.msg, and it confirms that alsasound started (returned 0... which is what it's supposed to return if it starts successfully, isn't it?) I looked at /dev, and there are several audio devices (audio, audio0, audio1, etc.) all with permissions and ownership listed as: crw-rw-rw- 1 root audio 14, 4 Sep 23 21:54 What-in-heck-else am I supposed to do? SuSE 7.3 with Ximian-GNOME on a DELL Latitude C600. Oh, keep in mind that anything I did, above, I did because the word "sound" was vaguely connected to it, not because I knew what I was doing. I don't. Thanks for any help. -- Kevin McLauchlan Chrysalis-ITS, Inc. "Ultimate Trust(TM)"