Have you tried running pulseaudio as a daemon? e.g. "/etc/rc.d/pulseaudio start' This would likely be a fix for now... OR If you're feeling daring, then maybe try out this udev-acl package I just put up on AUR. I have no idea if it will work, I just threw it together with the patch that was provided, and I'm not on an Arch box right now so I can't test it. I figured it would be interesting to see if this solved the problem though. http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=31904 I think the default way of starting pulse has become dependent on consolekit & policykit ever since the pulse user was removed. On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 9:34 AM, Magnus Therning <magnus@xxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote: > On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 10:59 AM, Christopher Daley <crdaley@xxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > > Also, make sure your user is a member of the group 'audio'? > > > > If you're still having problems then run > > > > ls -l /dev/snd > > > > and show us the output > > I'm having the same problem as OP. Re-configuring fails: > > % groups > wheel audio users vboxusers pulse-access pulse-rt magnus > % alsamixer > ALSA lib pulse.c:229:(pulse_connect) PulseAudio: Unable to connect: > Connection refused > > cannot open mixer: Connection refused > % ll /dev/snd > total 0 > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 60 2009-11-06 16:43 by-path > crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 7 2009-11-06 16:43 controlC0 > crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 6 2009-11-06 16:43 hwC0D0 > crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 5 2009-11-10 11:19 pcmC0D0c > crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 4 2009-11-10 11:19 pcmC0D0p > crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 3 2009-11-06 16:43 seq > crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 2 2009-11-06 16:43 timer > > Any ideas of how to get my sound back? > > /M > > -- > Magnus Therning (OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4) > magnus@therning.org Jabber: magnus@therning.org > http://therning.org/magnus identi.ca|twitter: magthe >