On Thu, 22.01.09 08:46, TheCajun (thecajun at nmia.com) wrote: > This is a Fedora10 installation. Everything worked fine in my Ferdora9 > installation. For security reasons PA is not autospawned for root. If you want to use it, then you have to run it manually. > Jan 22 08:33:37 localhost pulseaudio[7413]: alsa-util.c: Error opening PCM device hw:0: Permission denied Looks like a permission problem. On Fedora access to the sound device files is nowadays managed via ConsoleKit/HAL and ACLs -- only the currently active session gets access to the device files. If you run stuff outside of any session you thus need to modify the CK configuration. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. lennart [at] poettering [dot] net ICQ# 11060553 http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4