On 29/08/12||12:00, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Wed, 2012-08-29 at 11:54 +0200, Arno Gaboury wrote: > > I am totally lost on this issue, especially the fact that my sound card > > is not recognized with $aplay -l > > I bet your soundcard is able to record ;), but only playing doesn't > work. Get rid of PA, if you don't need it for something special. > > I installed > > $ pacman -Qi pulseaudio-dummy > Name : pulseaudio-dummy > Version : 1.0-1 > URL : None > Licenses : BSD > Groups : None > Provides : pulseaudio > Depends On : None > Optional Deps : None > Required By : gnome-settings-daemon pulseaudio-alsa > Conflicts With : pulseaudio > Replaces : None > Installed Size : 4.00 KiB > Packager : Unknown Packager > Architecture : any > Build Date : Sun 15 Jan 2012 01:43:53 AM CET > Install Date : Sun 15 Jan 2012 01:45:38 AM CET > Install Reason : Explicitly installed > Install Script : No > Description : A dummy package that pretends to provide pulseaudio. > > Regards, > Ralf > > Thank you, I will give a try, but first would like to understand the reasons of this issue. I guess there are some errors in my systemd set up. Why lscpi is not found, when pciutils package is already installed?