Laura Conrad wrote: > Nothing is changed by "apt-get update" except the list of things that > can be installed by "apt-get ...". You probably meant to say "apt-get > upgrade". Sure, stupid typo... > If you really need to not have something updated, you should pin it. Yeah I know pinning and used it sometimes. But I still need to know how much the packages "alsa", "alsa-base", "alsautils", "alsa-utils" "alsa-tools" and "libasound2" can break the stability of alsa... I mean they contain the userspace tools I presume. And the only tool I explicitly use is aconnect. But others might be needed for alsa to work correctly... -- peace, love & harmony Atte http://www.atte.dk