On Feb 18, 2008, at 4:52 PM, JaM wrote: > I have pulse audio installed on a gentoo linux system and have it > running as a separate instance for each user. For whatever reason, > however, I do not get any startup/shutdown sounds. I do get the > rest of the system sounds but nothing for the startup and shutdown. > Is there something I can do to diagnose what is going on? If I look > in the Sound Settings Panel I can play the shutdown/startup sounds > fine. Any help would be appreciated. I wish I could offer an actual solution, but one thing that I can tell you is that I had a similar problem on my Debian box for a while. A recent update seems to have fixed it. My guess would be that it's something to do with Gnome, not with PA. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyservers. Key ID: A6D24837