covici at ccs.covici.com <covici at ccs.covici.com> wrote: > Default sink name: auto_null > Default source name: auto_null.monitor These are very suspect. They should be set to the actual sound card. Might there be a permission issue in accessing the card? I'm not sure where it writes its logs by default, but it appears not to be finding and accessing the audio device correctly, hence no audible output. At this point you need the log entries generated when it starts up.