Hi, I am on Fedora 9, pulseaudio 0.9.10, linux 2.6.25.4 I've recompiled my own kernel from the sources and pulseaudio does not start. Using the Fedora official kernel it works. I've used the config from Fedora and it works (without all the patches), but there are too many different options (wrt my config) to find the culprit. This is the error message: E: alsa-util.c: Error opening PCM device hw:0: No such file or directory E: module.c: Failed to load module "module-alsa-sink" (argument: "device_id=0 sink_name=alsa_output.pci_8086_24c5_sound_card_0_alsa_playback_0"): initialization failed. I've compared the strace of a working and failing run and the difference seems to be here: Working open("/dev/snd/controlC0", O_RDONLY) = 15 Not Working open("/dev/snd/controlC0", O_RDONLY) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied) I've compared the 2 directories /dev/snd and there is a small difference: Working crw-rw----+ 1 root root 116, 13 2008-06-18 22:00 controlC0 crw-rw----+ 1 root root 116, 6 2008-06-18 22:00 controlC1 crw-rw----+ 1 root root 116, 12 2008-06-18 22:00 pcmC0D0c crw-rw----+ 1 root root 116, 11 2008-06-18 22:00 pcmC0D0p crw-rw----+ 1 root root 116, 10 2008-06-18 22:00 pcmC0D1c crw-rw----+ 1 root root 116, 9 2008-06-18 22:00 pcmC0D2c crw-rw----+ 1 root root 116, 8 2008-06-18 22:00 pcmC0D3c crw-rw----+ 1 root root 116, 7 2008-06-18 22:00 pcmC0D4p crw-rw----+ 1 root root 116, 5 2008-06-18 22:00 pcmC1D0c crw-rw----+ 1 root root 116, 4 2008-06-18 22:00 pcmC1D0p crw-rw----+ 1 root root 116, 3 2008-06-18 22:00 seq crw-rw----+ 1 root root 116, 2 2008-06-18 22:00 timer Not working crw-rw---- 1 root root 116, 10 2008-06-18 21:19 controlC0 crw-rw---- 1 root root 116, 13 2008-06-18 21:19 controlC1 crw-rw---- 1 root root 116, 9 2008-06-18 21:19 pcmC0D0c crw-rw---- 1 root root 116, 8 2008-06-18 21:19 pcmC0D0p crw-rw---- 1 root root 116, 7 2008-06-18 21:19 pcmC0D1c crw-rw---- 1 root root 116, 6 2008-06-18 21:19 pcmC0D2c crw-rw---- 1 root root 116, 5 2008-06-18 21:19 pcmC0D3c crw-rw---- 1 root root 116, 4 2008-06-18 21:19 pcmC0D4p crw-rw---- 1 root root 116, 12 2008-06-18 21:19 pcmC1D0c crw-rw---- 1 root root 116, 11 2008-06-18 21:19 pcmC1D0p crw-rw---- 1 root root 116, 3 2008-06-18 21:19 seq crw-rw---- 1 root root 116, 2 2008-06-18 21:19 timer 2 differences: 1) the minors have changed 2) what is the "+" after the permissions? Anybody has a clue? Andrea