I guess you may have something already hogging up the ALSA hardware devices before pulseaudio starts. Perhaps you installed and activated jackd or some other audio system. When pulseaudio starts, it cannot find any free hardware ports to connect to and falls back to load a null audio sink. That's just a wild guess, but there are a bazillion of possibilities why it fails, so I don't have any insights to share with you. Regards, Daniel 2013/12/1 James Board <jpboard2 at yahoo.com> > > I ran pacmd and then 'list-sinks' and it tells me one sink is available > and the name is <auto_null>. Does that mean it can't find the audio > device? The output of dmesg tells me that my audio device is" Intel > 82801JI (ICH10 Family) HD Audio Controller. > > Does the above info help provide clue why my sound isn't working? > > > > > _______________________________________________ > pulseaudio-discuss mailing list > pulseaudio-discuss at lists.freedesktop.org > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/pulseaudio-discuss > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/pulseaudio-discuss/attachments/20131201/1e7d299f/attachment-0001.html>
