This is a 'me too' > I happened to encounter this same problem a few days ago. I finally got > around to compiling up debug versions of libalsa and alsactl, and found > that my problem was garbage in my /etc/asound.state. I removed the /var/lib/alsa/asound.state file and YES! it worked again. Greetings, Micha Kersloot http://www.kovoks.nl/