On 04/13/2010 09:56 AM, Neal Becker wrote: >> can you try using >> start-pulseaudio-kde >> instead? >> >> -- Rex > > 100% reproducible. pulseaudio -D works. start-pulseaudio-kde silently mildly insane. the only difference is that start-pulseaudio-kde does pulseaudio --start (which according to it's man-page is identical to -D, when pa isn't already running). and it loads the device-manager module via: pactl load-module module-device-manager "do_routing=1" -- Rex