Thanks, Jeff. I will take a look when I get home. I suspect my problem IS somewhere in alsa or pulse audio.

That thread seems to reference both alsa and oss, which is a little confusing to me.

For a variety of reasons (mostly related to cabling) I'm not using the HDMI for audio, only for video.

Did I mention that - some days - learning is painful?

Really appreciate your help, Jeff.

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