'Twas brillig, and Ron Hermsen at 20/10/10 21:55 did gyre and gimble: >> >> >> Basically the console kit module is failing to load due to a dbus problem. >> >> Also seems that some other application has your Alsa device open (Device >> or resource busy message indicates this), perhaps this means that you >> simply can't use your h/w in full duplex mode (e.g. opening the sink >> prevents the source from actually working?) >> >> Anyway, actually two bugs there. > > Do you think they are both PA bugs, or could the second one be > hardware limitation of my old soundcard? I suspect neither are pulseaudio bugs! The first is just a problem with your dbus or console-kit setup. I think the latter could very easily be a due to old h/w like you say. This is handled differently in newer PA versions by module-alsa-card, that implements a probing mechanism to determine how the h/w can be used. Col -- Colin Guthrie gmane(at)colin.guthr.ie http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited [http://www.tribalogic.net/] Open Source: Mageia Contributor [http://www.mageia.org/] PulseAudio Hacker [http://www.pulseaudio.org/] Trac Hacker [http://trac.edgewall.org/]