'Twas brillig, and Spidey / Claudio at 17/06/11 16:57 did gyre and gimble: > aplay -l and arecord -l gives me correct results. I just don't > understand WHEN or WHAT made PA go mad at me, and mess with my devices. The output of pacmd list is generally the most useful for debuging things like this. Post it here (or via a pastebin on IRC) and someone will hopefully be able to advise better. A screenshot of the KDE System Settings priority list GUI might help ensure that it's hooked up to PA properly too. Cheers 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/]