On Wed, 2012-08-29 at 12:15 +0200, Arno Gaboury wrote: > 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? I send the PKGBUILD and the package with a second mail. For good reasons only the PKGBUILD came through the list. I could send the package off-line, but it's more secure to build it yourself using the PKGBUILD. Inside of the directory where the PKGBUILD is run makepkg then as root run pacman -U pulseaudio-dummy-1.0-1-any.pkg.tar.xz