>> control did not affect the volume at all. They yesterday they were >> gone >> altogether. There was no audio output device at all (btw this makes >> quicktime crash wehn you try playing movies with sound! :)) > > I've had the same thing happen (albeit without Quicktime crashing) > about > three times since I upgraded to Panther. This after 10.2.8 finally > fixed my > USB audio issues... :-/ I think the quicktime crash when lacking an audio output device is a known 'problem'...just mentione dit as a curiosity. I believe the Cube is the only Mac ever made that actually has _no_ audio hardware output device at all. That's why that Cube audio 'patch' came up on versiontracker a while ago...it faked the audio device that was just not there. Let's hope this will clear up in the future updates...