I must be missing something. Running pulseaudio as a daemon SEEMS to be much less troublesome. It's easy enough to change in the conf file. Audio device=Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series. I assume that this is a fairly common. There must be a downside that I have not appreciated. Thanks -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org