<pre>> Why is this and is there some workaround?  Thanks for the help!<br><br></pre>You need to use an "audio" group, something fedora does not define.<br>I posted, maybe two months ago in this list, how to do that.
<br>It should work for what you want.<br clear="all"><br>------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br><br>How to add the audio group in Fedora 6.<br>
<br>1) Change /etc/security/console.perms.d/50-default.perms<br># <console>  0600 <sound>      0600 root<br><console>  0660 <sound>      0660 root.audio<br><br>2) Create a file /etc/udev/rules.d/52-
sound.rules with the following<br>contents:<br># audio devices<br>KERNEL=="dsp*",                 GROUP="audio", Mode="0660"<br>KERNEL=="audio*",               GROUP="audio", Mode="0660"
<br>KERNEL=="midi*",                GROUP="audio", Mode="0660"<br>KERNEL=="mixer*",               GROUP="audio", Mode="0660"<br>KERNEL=="sequencer*",           GROUP="audio", Mode="0660"
<br>KERNEL=="sound/*",              GROUP="audio", Mode="0660"<br>KERNEL=="snd/*",                GROUP="audio", Mode="0660"<br>KERNEL=="beep",                 GROUP="audio", Mode="0660"
<br>KERNEL=="admm*",                GROUP="audio", Mode="0660"<br>KERNEL=="adsp*",                GROUP="audio", Mode="0660"<br>KERNEL=="aload*",               GROUP="audio", Mode="0660"
<br>KERNEL=="amidi*",               GROUP="audio", Mode="0660"<br>KERNEL=="dmfm*",                GROUP="audio", Mode="0660"<br>KERNEL=="dmmidi*",              GROUP="audio", Mode="0660"
<br>KERNEL=="sndstat",              GROUP="audio", Mode="0660"<br><br>3) Create a group "audio" and add all users allowed to access <br>the audio devices.<br><br>-- <br>Paulo Roma Cavalcanti
<br>LCG - UFRJ