'Twas brillig, and Gene Heskett at 03/01/10 17:48 did gyre and gimble: > And it seem like a doable, sane approach to the problem. A voice of sanity > midst the riot this could become. :) > But that still leaves PA's biggest problem for this user: It picks the most > obviously wrong choice in available audio outputs, whether they exist or not > in the hardware (in my case they don't physically exist), and I have not > found a way around that yet. A default install of mdv2010 on another drive > here is silent, the only thing heard when booting it is the thump in the > speakers as udev starts & loads emu10k1. I'm a bit confused bu your mail to be honest. Can you explain what you meant a bit about which of your devices it's choosing? Do you have multiple sound cards? pacmd ls output would be good. 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/]