-----Original Message----- From: pulseaudio-discuss-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pulseaudio-discuss-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Lennart Poettering Sent: Wednesday, 21 April, 2010 15:36 To: pulseaudio-discuss at mail.0pointer.de Subject: Re: Does pulseaudio require alsa/oss On Wed, 21.04.10 08:50, Colin Guthrie (gmane at colin.guthr.ie) wrote: [ The quoting style of the original mail is completely borked, causing my mailer to eat the biggest part of it automatically when replying. That's why I am replying here. John please fix your mailer. ] Since I'm at work, I have no choice but to use Outlook - I agree, it's useless > > ""). D: cli-command.c: Checking for existance of > > '/usr/local/lib/pulse-0.9.21/modules/module-udev-detect.so': success > > I: module-udev-detect.c: Found 0 cards. I: module.c: Loaded > > "module-udev-detect" (index: #4; argument: ""). > > Something seems wrong here... I suspect your udev setup is somehow > broken but I'm not an expert WRT udev so can't really say for sure. Well, my educated bet is that the kernel has some deprecated sysfs switches on. It is highly recommended to let your distributor figure things like this out, as they usually know which switches are needed to make things properly these day. Use distribution kernels! Use the knowledge and experience of your kernel maintainers! Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. So, a plug for red hat then :)