Hi Erwin, Thanks for your response. >The permissions for /dev/dsp are set wrong. You need to change them (as >root) to "crw-rw-rw-" with the command >chmod 666 /dev/dsp Sorry problem still exists. I was not allowed to make such a change. as root # chmod 666 /dev/dsp It was OK, permission changed and confirmed with # ls -l /dev/dsp After reboot it changed back again as root ls -l /dev/dsp crw------- 1 root root 14, 3 Aug 31 07:31 /dev/dsp It is a little bid funny During exiting following warning found : aumix error opening mixer [Failed] Stephen Liu