On 04/18/2012 03:06 PM, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: > D: [pulseaudio] module-udev-detect.c: /dev/snd/controlC0 is accessible: > yes > D: [pulseaudio] module-udev-detect.c: > /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/sound/card0 is busy: yes This means that another process is hogging the sound card, so pulseaudio can not access it. You can use the 'sudo fuser -v /dev/snd/*' command to figure out what process that could be. -- David Henningsson, Canonical Ltd. http://launchpad.net/~diwic