'Twas brillig, and Martin Wetterstedt at 16/10/10 19:46 did gyre and gimble: > D: module-udev-detect.c: /dev/snd/controlC0 is accessible: no This basically means your user does not have permission to access the sound system. I've heard that Debian has "strange" udev rules (because the Debian udev maintainer insists on using home grown rules rather than the upstream ones) for applying ACLs to devices properly. Someone mentioned this earlier on this list. Check the output of "getfacl /dev/snd/controlC0" to confirm your user is not in the ACL here. Ultimately this is a Debian problem tho', so probably best to ask via that channel. Col -- Colin Guthrie gmane(at)colin.guthr.ie http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited [http://www.tribalogic.net/] Open Source: Mageia Contributor [http://www.mageia.org/] PulseAudio Hacker [http://www.pulseaudio.org/] Trac Hacker [http://trac.edgewall.org/]