Realplayer used to work fine when I was in my account, now I have no sound from real player. If I open a terminal as root and type realplay, I get sound. Any one else experience this? Have an idea what it could be? I had to change permissions on /dev/dsp to get SOF to play. So I went into devices and set dmfm*, dmmidi* to mode 666 and tried real player and that did not work. Is there a sound device that realplayer uses that I should check for permissions on. I am making a guess that is it, since KDE startup sounds play, music cd's play. No midi's, they never did so that is no big deal. This seems to have started since I upgraded gnome to helix, installed evolution and the natulis (which broke evolution). Any way I would like to get realplayer back under my user account. Thanks, Jerry