T.C. For some reason pulseaudio is starting now. I don't think my original observation was wrong, but ... Before I set up the .config/autstart in the users account I did a reboot and when I logged in pulseaudio was active. running 'pacmd suspend false' resulted in : "Welcome to PulseAudio! Use "help" for usage information" this did not stop the puluseaudio daemon. I made sure the hdmi was selected in the output tab of the "Sound" System settings as well as being selected in the Hardware tab. After this I ran : pacmd play-file /usr/share/kde4/apps/amarok/data/first_run_jingle.ogg 0 Which did not result in anything Then I ran pacmd play-file /usr/share/kde4/apps/amarok/data/first_run_jingle.ogg 1 Which resulted in playing the jingle on the laptop's speakers. Thanks much for your debugging expertise. Do you think it is time for me to file a bug???? Greg -------------------------------------------------------------------------- T.C. I have it working now. Before I filed a bug report I decided to enter the "radeon.audio=1" to the /boot/grub2/grub.cfg file. When I rebooted it worked perfectly. I'm not sure what I did added the radeon command in the boot menu, but what every was wrong is now fixed. Thank you again for sharing your expertise.... sure appreciate your help. Greg -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org