On Sunday 12 July 2015 11:57:28 E. Liddell wrote: > don't ask me > why, but ALSA sometimes sets everything up muted The logic is that someone might have headphones on or a loudspeaker turned up high and get deafened when/if sound came on unexpectedly loudly during an intall, so it is safe to leave people to turn the sound on knowingly. Don't shoot the messenger. ;-) Sometimes unmuting in KMixer is enough. The easiest way to sort it is with pavucontrol, but that means installing pulesaudio. <dons flameproof suti> ;-) Lisi