Well. Have no clue why, but after viewing about 90 minutes of Joost video, my everything-audio-works configuration stopped working. Automatic updates are turned entirely off, I'm thinking this must be a HAL thing, not sure how to debug. Anyone know what I should try to debug? As of this moment, using any of three configurations including the one where everything goes direct to ALSA hardware by name, the only audio I have is Jack :-) J.E.B.