On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 9:26 AM, Tanu Kaskinen <tanuk at iki.fi> wrote: > "switch = mute" makes the mixer element state follow pulseaudio's sink > mute state, and I don't think you meant to do that. Use "switch = off" > to set the element always off or "switch = on" to set it always on. FWIW, Ubuntu has carried this workaround for Live and Audigy devices, but it's only a workaround. It should be fixed in ALSA, and I'll be pushing a patch to alsa-utils (for the init db) to do this properly. Thanks! -Dan