Hi I'm trying to get to work Audio::Beep. I tried the example program from the distribution (see below). When I run the program as normal user I get Cannot open console: Permission denied at /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.8/Audio/Beep/Linux/PP.pm line 2 +1 Audio::Beep::Linux::PP::play('Audio::Beep::Linux::PP=HASH(0x818d6d8)', 440, 100) called at +/usr/local/share/perl/5.8.8/Audio/Beep.pm line 204 Audio::Beep::beep('undef', 'undef') called at sound2.pl line 4 so I figured maybe try as root. But when I run the program as root (from command line), the cursor disappears for a few seconds, but I hear no sound. So the program appears to run, but without sound. In other applications I do have sound, and I have all volume levers of alsamixer turned up maximally and not muted. (I also hear sound when running a program as root.) My distro is ubuntu 8.04... Any suggestions? josvanr ---example program--------------------------------- #OO more musical way use Audio::Beep; my $beeper = Audio::Beep->new(); # lilypond subset syntax accepted # relative notation is the default # (now correctly implemented) my $music = "g' f bes' c8 f d4 c8 f d4 bes c g f2"; # Pictures at an Exhibition by Modest Mussorgsky $beeper->play( $music ); -----------------------------------------