and icewm. From an xterm mplayer runs, but no sound comes out of the speaker. It's like the system is on mute. "pactl list" tells me sink 0, and sources 0 and 1 are suspended. I don't know how they got that way, and I can't seem to unsuspend them. Sink #0 State: SUSPENDED Name: alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo Description: Internal Audio Analog Stereo Driver: module-alsa-card.c Sample Specification: s16le 2ch 44100Hz Channel Map: front-left,front-right Owner Module: 4 Mute: no Volume: 0: 45% 1: 45% 0: -21.00 dB 1: -21.00 dB balance 0.00 Base Volume: 96% -1.00 dB Monitor Source: alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo.monitor Latency: 0 usec, configured 0 usec Flags: HARDWARE HW_MUTE_CTRL HW_VOLUME_CTRL DECIBEL_VOLUME LATENCY Properties: [...] Source #0 State: SUSPENDED Name: alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo.monitor Description: Monitor of Internal Audio Analog Stereo Driver: module-alsa-card.c Sample Specification: s16le 2ch 44100Hz Channel Map: front-left,front-right Owner Module: 4 Mute: no Volume: 0: 100% 1: 100% 0: 0.00 dB 1: 0.00 dB balance 0.00 Base Volume: 100% 0.00 dB Monitor of Sink: alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo Latency: 0 usec, configured 0 usec Flags: DECIBEL_VOLUME LATENCY Properties: [...] "pactl suspend-sink 0 0" returns 0 (success, one would think) but nothing changes with Sink #0. "pactl suspend-sink 0 1" doesn't change anything either (and exits with 0 as well). Now, "pactl suspend-source 0 0" exits with 1 and gives an error: "Failure: Invalid argument" ("pactl suspend-source 0 1", "... 1 0", and "... 1 1" all do the same thing). What is going on here? Elijah