On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 11:50 PM, Thorsten <quintfall@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > When playing mplayer, there is a playback mixer in alsamixer, and it > works. When mplayer is stopped, the playback mixer is gone, while the > other mixers are still there. Something is odd here. When using pulseaudio there should be two mixers in alsamixer, Master and Capture (when you select the view "All"). What do you see? -t