The original symptom gets a bit more fun. My test, hardwriting "merge" into the Interface box, has now gotten qjackctl/jack confused so that it is ALWAYS trying to start with "merge," even after specifying "hw:0" for interface. I think D-Bus is not listening to qjackctl's setting changes. Both .jackdrc and ~/.config/jack/conf.xml show hw:0, but jack is just not obeying. <driver name="alsa"> <option name="device">hw:0</option> <option name="rate">44100</option> Pardon me if I sound a little frustrated. I don't know what happened. It was fine earlier, and now it's not. Now I'd just settle for being able to start jack with the built-in laptop hardware, and take it from there. Argh. James -- James Harkins /// dewdrop world jamshark70@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.dewdrop-world.net "Come said the Muse, Sing me a song no poet has yet chanted, Sing me the universal." -- Whitman blog: http://www.dewdrop-world.net/words audio clips: http://www.dewdrop-world.net/audio more audio: http://soundcloud.com/dewdrop_world/tracks _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user