Hi! Apparently not all ALSA drivers set the "device" symlink properly. This creates problems with HAL which then is unable to manage permissions to those files properly. One example of such a driver is EMU10K1X. For more information, see: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=370821#c26 Also reported on the ALSA BTS: https://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/alsa-bug/view.php?id=3575 Lennart -- Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. lennart [at] poettering [dot] net ICQ# 11060553 http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4 _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel