Hello - my name is Steve Hoovestol, I am in Atlanta and working as a PTA father with Dekalb County school systems on a K12LTSP pilot. I have been reading the discussions since September and want to say thanks for all the great stuff you guys do! Here is a workaround I played with last night - it looks like the 4.2.x EL rpm works with V5 - 1. Fresh install of K12LTSP V5 on server without sound card 2. Did the System Tools --> Software updater and updated all 3. Tried TuxType on Client - no sound 4. Did System --> Preferences --> More Preferences --> Multimedia Systems Selector - default output plugin - selected ESD 5. Sound worked on tuxtype on client, no sound on flash 6. Tried the mkdir /tmp/.esd & touch /tmp/.esd/socket flash 7 work around - no sound on client 7. Checked the flash version it - saw it was version 9 8. Tried the 6 version of the flash 9 sound workaround rpm - would not resolve dependencies 9. Installed the 4 version of the rpm - and flash 9 has sound on the client - <a href="http://repos.k12linux.mesd.k12.or.us/non-free/4.2.3EL-32bit/" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"> http://repos.k12linux.mesd.k12.or.us/non-free/4.2.3EL-32bit/</a><a href="http://repos.k12linux.mesd.k12.or.us/non-free/4.2.3EL-32bit/libflashsupport-0.1.0-2098.i386.rpm" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"> libflashsupport-0.1.0-2098.i386.rpm</a> I tried this out last night on a old donated PIII server and the sound seemed better than the flash 7 (but it was different machines). Thanks again for all the info. Steve Hoovestol <a href="mailto:shoovestol@gmail.com">shoovestol@gmail.com</a>