Hi, In my m/c I have VIA -PCI Sound card. I've Mandrake 8.0 and it picked up fine, all the system sounds are coming fine. I downloaded realplayer 8.0 basic (I installed from the .bin file). When I am running from root. It gives me the message "output audio device is busy, some other application are using it" , although no sound application is running. Then I tried to use ESD daemon with RealPlayer but the problem persists. I change all dsp,mixer,audio device files mode to 777, but it gives the same problem. Can you tell me what is wrong with Realplayer and this sound card combination. Thanks, -Rajat. -- When you lose, don't lose the lesson. Home Page: http://members.tripod.com/~prgoon E-mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++