Hello Peter, thank you for the response. > check /et/pulse/daemon.conf, I have issues with > default-sample-rate and alternate-sample-rate; I need to set both to the > same value (which would be natively supported by your hardware, probably > 48000 or 16000) > You were right, specifying correct default-sample-rate in daemon.conf helped. I can now play sounds with paplay. Alternate-sample-rate is not a valid settings for my version of pulse audio. Unfortunately new issue appeared now. After accessing pulseaudio deamon (with paplay for example) it shutdown by itself with some timeout saying: I: [pulseaudio] core.c: We are idle, quitting... The full log can be seen in the attachment. > > turn on logging, start PulseAudio with > > pulseaudio --system --log-level=debug --log-target=stderr > I have also tried to run pulseaudio with --system parameter. It does not work for me with following error. E: [pulseaudio] shm.c: mmap() failed: Cannot allocate memory E: [pulseaudio] core.c: pa_mempool_new() failed. E: [pulseaudio] main.c: pa_core_new() failed. with best regards Jan -- Tato zpr?va byla vytvo?ena p?evratn?m po?tovn?m klientem Opery: http://www.opera.com/mail/ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: pulse.log Type: application/octet-stream Size: 91620 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/pulseaudio-discuss/attachments/20120322/33de8c82/attachment-0001.obj>