> Hi Louis. When I installed F8 it had pulseaudio installed (unknown to me at > the time). I normally try out an audio CD to just see if the sound is ok, and > Kscd wouldn't play, with the complaint of permission denied, and something to > do with pulseaudio. I disabled pulseaudio by removing the > alsa-plugins-pulseaudio package, and the sound came back. Thanks Nigel. That did the trick. Louis