Hi Toby, 'Twas brillig, and toby saunders at 20/03/09 01:41 did gyre and gimble: > hiya everything installed ok then: > D: alsa-sink.c: Thread starting up > W: core-util.c: pthread_setschedparam(): Invalid argument > D: rtpoll.c: Acquired POSIX realtime signal SIGRTMIN+28 > D: alsa-sink.c: Read hardware volume: 0: 100% 1: 100% 2: 100% 3: 100% 4: > 100% 5: 100% > Segmentation fault > when i started up, full output http://pastebin.com/m59f24ab > default.pa http://pastebin.com/m36b05775 > daemon.conf http://pastebin.com/m10d9b7eb While Lennart may be able to work out what's going on there, I'd imagine we'll need a full backtrace to be able to help here. http://pulseaudio.org/wiki/Community#BugsPatchesTranslations Col -- Colin Guthrie gmane(at)colin.guthr.ie http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited [http://www.tribalogic.net/] Open Source: Mandriva Linux Contributor [http://www.mandriva.com/] PulseAudio Hacker [http://www.pulseaudio.org/] Trac Hacker [http://trac.edgewall.org/]