Hi, all! Suse 10.1... Some of you may remember my series of weird sound problems after replacing a dead machine with a newer one. In summary: i can only play audio through the video players (xine, kaffeine, etc). When using an audio player, i get errors that alsa sees no found device. Xine works with alsa and kmixer works with it as well. So it "half works", and the only minor feature i miss is the ability to play audio from Flash apps (e.g., www.pandora.com). Since i can use kaffeine to play audio files, i'm not too annoyed by the problems and haven't investigated them much. ("It [mostly] works - leave it alone!") But now i've noticed something which is just bugging the hell out of me... My standard operating procedure is that i have KDE running under one session and WindowMaker running on another one. From WM i remote control my Windows laptop using VNC because working from my desktop machine is infinitely more physically comfortable than working on the laptop. (i have to use Windows because i get paid to program for WinCE devices - there is no going around that, so please don't preach to me about it.) That's all fine and good, and has worked as expected since time began. What doesn't work, though, since i replaced my older PC with this newer one, is that when i switch from my KDE session (where everything but MS Embedded VC is running) to my WindowMaker session (under which only VNC is running), i lose audio completely. When i switch back to display :0 (KDE) the audio comes back. So, my question is essentially: "WTF?!?!?!" i never had this problem on my older main board, also with Suse 10.1 and the *exact* same audio card which i'm using right now. The annoying this about this is that i want to play my sound files from the linux machine (display :0) while i work from the Windows machine (:1), but as soon as i switch over to :1, my audio switches off. i'm logged in as the same user on both sessions, so i'm sure that permissions are not the problem. Any ideas on how i can keep audio from switching off when i switch X sessions? -- ----- stephan@s11n.net http://s11n.net "...pleasure is a grace and is not obedient to the commands of the will." -- Alan W. Watts