HI, I am very persistent in using linux but have run into a brick wall trying to figure out what is wrong with how I installed Mplayer. I use Fedora Core1 in combination with Mozilla 1.4.1, and installed the latest rpms for mplayer: mencoder-1.0pre3-1.i386.rpm mplayer-codecs-extralite-1.0-1.i386.rpm mplayer-common-1.0pre3-1.i386.rpm mplayer-gui-1.0pre3-1.i386.rpm mplayer-skin-default-1.0-2.noarch.rpm mplayer-vidix-1.0pre3-1.i386.rpm mplayer-vidix-radeon-1.0pre3-1.i386.rpm As well as the plugin: mplayerplug-in-1.0-1.fc1.i386.rpm I installed mencoder, mplayer-common and mplayer-gui using rpm-Uvh with root privileges The problems I'm having are : 1) Cannot run gmplayer as a user. 2) I can run it as root but with no sound at all Below I included the log results: [alex@d64-180-184-132 RPMS]$ gmplayer test.mov MPlayer 1.0pre3-RPM-3.2.2 (C) 2000-2003 MPlayer Team CPU: Intel Pentium 4/Xeon/Celeron Northwood 1695 MHz (Family: 8, Stepping: 4) Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1 Compiled with Runtime CPU Detection - WARNING - this is not optimal! To get best performance, recompile MPlayer with --disable-runtime-cpudetection. Reading config file /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf Reading config file /home/alex/.mplayer/config [cfg] read config file: /home/alex/.mplayer/gui.conf Reading config file /home/alex/.mplayer/gui.conf vo: X11 running at 1024x768 with depth 24 and 32 bpp (":0.0" => local display) Reading /home/alex/.mplayer/codecs.conf: Can't open '/home/alex/.mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory Reading /etc/mplayer/codecs.conf: 61 audio & 169 video codecs font: can't open file: /home/alex/.mplayer/font/font.desc font: can't open file: /usr/share/mplayer/font/font.desc Using Linux hardware RTC timing (1024Hz). Can't open input config file /home/alex/.mplayer/input.conf: No such file or directory Input config file /etc/mplayer/input.conf parsed: 53 binds SKIN dir 1: '/home/alex/.mplayer/Skin' SKIN dir 2: '/usr/share/mplayer/Skin' Thank you for any help that you can provide me. ALex