Hi Jonathan! the asound.state, whereever it is, it has different locations, don't know if based on alsa-version or distro. It is the place where ALSA (alsactl) stores all the volumes and settings for your cards. For cards with more features this can mean routing etc. I seem to remember, that it can be helpful to delete them. NOTE BENE: If you like your soundcard settings as they are and if there's a lot to setup, you can try to save the settings for that card in one file. I don't know how to do it, but it's simple. I once did it. With that, you can tell alsactl to resotre the settings for that particular card, whereever ALSA finds it now, from that file. Kind regards Julien -------- Music was my first love and it will be my last (John Miles) ======== FIND MY WEB-PROJECT AT: ======== http://ltsb.sourceforge.net the Linux TextBased Studio guide ======= AND MY PERSONAL PAGES AT: ======= http://www.juliencoder.de _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user