'Twas brillig, and Joel A Fernandes at 21/07/11 01:36 did gyre and gimble: > Appreciate any pointers to what could be causing this. I think *a* problem is udev.... (it might not be *the* problem however) There was a problem in 0.9.22 that system.pa used hal-detect rather than udev-detect. default.pa correctly used udev-detect. But it seems that when running as a regular user (which thus uses default.pa) you could not load udev-detect. This means that you likely are not running udev or perhaps do not have the udev module installed (or perhaps even compiled?) So I'd start off by compiling up 0.9.23 and seeing if things work with that using udev detection. Please let us know how it goes and we can perhaps offer more assistance if needed. The output from "pulseaudio -vvvv" as a regular user would be useful for debugging. Cheers 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/]