>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. Well, you know more than me.? First question: can I assume? this is causing me to not be able to play sounds?? If this the right direction for me to look? I don't know what jackd is and there is no file named jackd on my entire system. Second question: how would I learn why it can't find free hardware ports?? Is there a log file somewhere that tells me what is hogging the ALSA hardware devices, whatever they are? What do I read?? What would you do next if this was your system? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/pulseaudio-discuss/attachments/20131201/b85de055/attachment.html>
