Hi Wawrzek Very annoying! It may be related to similar random behaviour in whether eth0 is the wireless or ethernet connection. (and random behaviour of console fullscreen or not at bootup.) Sometimes it seems to be affected by use of Windows between bootups, but not really consistently. Hope someone has an answer. clare Not Windows at my machine, so this another problem. I partly resolve my problem. In Amarok you point directly to device not to 'number'[1]. I also write udev rules creating symlinks to my devices, so I always I have /dev/mixer-intel and /dev/mixer-ens1370. But some programs [skype] point to alsa device 0, alsa device 1. Wawrzek [1] http://amarok.kde.org/wiki/FAQ#How_can_I_change_where_the_audio_is_output_to... -- Wawrzyniec Niewodniczański WWW: http://larryn.blogspot.com/ vel LarryN E-MAIL: wawrzyniec.niewodniczanski[na]pwr.wroc.pl PhD student @ JID: larryn@chrome.pl Wroclaw University of Technology TEL: +48(071)320-2894