I'm sure that there is a "proper" way to do it, but I just put the following in rc.local and sound works :
cd /dev/snd chmod 666 *
Thanks, that does it. That could be the last hook that keeps me from moving from fc6 -> f9.
Thanks again.
And, there IS a file somewhere (I cant find it at the moment) that causes some files to be set to the 'users' ownership when a new user logs in, things like console and X11 things. This probably wants to go there if I could remember where 'there' was.