Hey, I've found a way of unmuting ALSA sound cards at startup, but it does work only if alsamixer (or the card-specific mixer) is just launched before all other audio apps. If I launch XMMS, for example, first, all levels are set to 0. Here's the code to be put at the end of /etc/modules.conf: post-install snd-card-1 /usr/sbin/alsactl restore >/dev/null 2>&1 || : pre-remove snd-card-1 /usr/sbin/alsactl store >/dev/null 2>&1 || : Do you know a better-working solution? Cheers, Mr?Freeze