'Twas brillig, and Gene Heskett at 03/01/10 22:58 did gyre and gimble: > Unforch, some of the pa stuff I apparently need, is missing from the mirrors > mandriva uses. So pamon and padev* are not installed. Is there a new > method, or do I go fuss at the mdv people? paman and padevchooser are not needed and are both deprecated upstream. They don't really serve any useful purpose anyway. The only pa* tools you really need are pavucontrol and paprefs. As for the next stage I'm not an expert on this but I think you can try adding: [Element IEC985 Optical Raw] switch = mute to the end of: /usr/share/pulseaudio/alsa-mixer/paths/analog-output.conf.common More info here: https://tango.0pointer.de/pipermail/pulseaudio-discuss/2009-June/004229.html 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/]