Dear Reader, I have problems with pulseaudio not starting up. After changing default.pa, module-alsa-sink did found my soundcard, but PA still fails. I hope someone can help me to get it working. Audio details: ?ESS 1869 Plug and Play Audio Drive?. The module that is loaded: snd_es1688 Complete lsmod output: http://pastebin.com/B0rzSrJT Modprobe and lsdev info: http://pastebin.com/rj0xqL01 If I use pulseaudio -vvvv --daemonize=false with the default ?default.pa? the output I get the following failure messages: E: polkit.c: Cannot set UID on session object. I: main.c: PolicyKit refuses acquire-high-priority privilege. D: module-always-sink.c: Autoloading null-sink as no other sinks detected. E: module-console-kit.c: GetSessionsForUnixUser() call failed: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply: Message did not receive a reply (timeout by message bus) E: module.c: Failed to load module "module-console-kit" (argument: ""): initialization failed. E: main.c: Module load failed. E: main.c: Failed to initialize daemon. Complete output: http://pastebin.com/MuxxuLmt >From the null-sink I understand that no soundcards is found. aplay -v --device=hw:0 /usr/share/sounds/shutdown.wav works Complete output: http://pastebin.com/Rdp0Ef6t Tried to change ?default.pa? with the following lines: load-module module-alsa-sink device=hw:0 load-module module-alsa-source device=hw:0 With this the module-alsa-sink seems to be ok, but module-alsa-source failes. pulseaudio -vvvv --daemonize=false output: E: polkit.c: Cannot set UID on session object. I: main.c: PolicyKit refuses acquire-high-priority privilege. D: alsa-util.c: Trying hw:0 with SND_PCM_NO_AUTO_FORMAT ... I: (alsa-lib)pcm_hw.c: open /dev/snd/pcmC0D0c failed E: alsa-util.c: Error opening PCM device hw:0: Device or resource busy E: module.c: Failed to load module "module-alsa-source" (argument: "device=hw:0"): initialization failed. E: main.c: Module load failed. E: main.c: Failed to initialize daemon. Complete output: http://pastebin.com/XaKz4ZN7 Tried to use ?module-null-source?, but it is not installed on my pc. # slocate module-null-source # Without a source module specified: http://pastebin.com/aUT5bxrp I'm not sure where to go from here...
