Hi Len,
You are right. My test machine only has motherboard sound, and a USB
device (Alesis iO2) which is very portable (but only 2 inputs at a time).
Most of the time it "just works", and it is only when I fiddle that I
get myself into unusual states :-)
But I will test and report back.
Rather than mucking up the bug comments... Ross, I think that you were the
one who has only a USB device. In any case, that should also be fixed as a
part of correcting defaults. please check for this. Removing
~/.config/autojackrc should show if th9is is so. you should not have to
set up USB