I recently installed pulseaudio and the alsa plugin and reconfigured everything I could to use it either directly or through the pcm.!default alsa device. Firefox worked and I wathched some movies on YouTube without problems (I think through the alsa plugin), then as some sites required Flash >=8 I installed the new flash player 9 and youtube is now silent ... In the system log I find this message: Jan 23 01:21:34 [pulseaudio] protocol-native.c: Warning! Too many connections (6 4), dropping incoming connection. - Last output repeated 141 times - and starting firefox from a terminal it prints lots of these messages attemping to play a video in youtube: *** PULSEAUDIO: Unable to create stream. *** PULSEAUDIO: Unable to create stream. [......] *** PULSEAUDIO: Unable to connect: Connection terminated *** PULSEAUDIO: Unable to connect: Connection terminated Uninstalling flash player 9 and reinstalling flash player 7 solves the problem with youtube (but no flash 9 :-((().... Chiacchiera con i tuoi amici in tempo reale! http://it.yahoo.com/mail_it/foot/*http://it.messenger.yahoo.com