Hi, Mentioned this briefly on IRC, but for completeness I'll post it here. I performed this test a totally fresh user account, at the terminal with no mixers or other users logged in + git master 8f928b (HEAD at time of writing). The alsa Master and PCM values are initialised to sensible values during initial boot. Let's say they PCM is 100% and Master is 60% for arguments sake. When pulse first starts, it initialises the Master volume to 100% and as such it's causing quite a few complaints. On subsequent loads pulse will restore the devices to what it remembered last time. I don't think pulse should initialise the volume on first load, but rather leave it as it finds it. Is it possible to make this change or are there other reasons for doing this? Col -- Colin Guthrie gmane(at)colin.guthr.ie http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited [http://www.tribalogic.net/] Open Source: Mandriva Linux Contributor [http://www.mandriva.com/] PulseAudio Hacker [http://www.pulseaudio.org/] Trac Hacker [http://trac.edgewall.org/]