Greetings all, I've recently installed SuSE, and am VERY happy with things so far. But, as we all know, linux distributions are.. picky. I've tried 6 diff. distros in the past 6 months, and this one had the best installation experience. Which makes my last and only trouble .. well .. troubling. I'm using a SoundBlaster Live! card and, when SuSE first installed it used the analog outputs. So, I went into the mixer and did what I normally do after a fresh install of some linux distribution: - Check A/D Output Jack - Uncheck Optical Raw Playback - Unmute everything Suddenly sound was crystal clear. Yay! Logged out. Logged in. Sound gone. Upon checking the mixer, I found that Optical Raw Playback was checked, which caused all kinds of nasty conflicts. So, instead of checking it again, I figured there must be some trouble with the mixer. So, I manually did "/usr/sbin/alsactl store" .. and "/usr/sbin/alsactl -f mymixersettings store". I put the line "/usr/sbin/alsactl -f mymixersettings restore" in my ~/.bash_profile in the hopes that it would restore them upon login. So, I logged out and in once again. It didn't work. HOWEVER, When I run "/usr/sbin/alsactl -f mymixersettings restore" from a command line, then everything works great. I figure SuSE has added something to the login process that causes my Optical Raw Playback setting to be set to true, when I can see that in /etc/asound.conf it is blatantly set to false. Any thoughts? Is there some script I can edit that gets executed during KDE login that screws up my mixer setting? Thanks in advance, Stephen.