Hi Lee. You may well ask. Alsactl restores the settings, and then KDE with it's "restore volumes at startup" changes them to what was there when you first installed Alsa. It would be much better if KDE could be convinced to leave the "restore volumes at startup" unchecked. It would save a lot of confusion. Nigel. On Wednesday 31 Aug 2005 7:39 pm, Lee Revell wrote: > On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 12:28 -0600, Dave Price wrote: > > Nigel, > > > > Yes, I am using KDE. I have now read the alsactl man page, and run (as > > sudo ) 'alsactl store' > > Why is KDE so stupid? > > Lee