Heya! Just wanted to point you all to this little Wiki page I just wrote: http://pulseaudio.org/wiki/PulseAudioStoleMyVolumes I wrote that so that I can point folks who complain about PA setting the "inner" volume controls to "100%" to this. It hopefully explains a little what is going on, and why this makes sense. And if it should indeed turn out that something's wrong what to do about it. If you are a packager and need to work your way through some kind of bugzilla every day this might be useful for a canned response. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. lennart [at] poettering [dot] net http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4