Might the file /etc/asound.conf an issue? With my previous OS (CentOS 5.6) this file looked like: #Generated by system-config-soundcard, do not edit by hand #SWCONF #DEV 0 defaults.pcm.card 0 defaults.pcm.device 0 defaults.ctl.card 0 though in Fedora 17, this file is blank except for the comments: # # Place your global alsa-lib configuration here... # Also, in the past, with CentOS and other RedHat distributions, I use to use the tool system-config-soundcard. It does not appear that this tool is still available for Fedora17. Thanks; _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user