I'm unable to get PulseAudio working on this machine at all, every time I look in 'pavucontrol' its showing 'dummy output' and no sound card available for configuration. How do I force the recognition of the sound card/chip please? Alsa works very well for my MPD but is unable to play at showing any videos, consequently I'm wanting to get PA working for that, and if I can get it all working then I'm quite willing to move over to PA for all my sound programmes. Some basic details of the machine;- ######################################### aplay -L null Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture) pulse Playback/recording through the PulseAudio sound server hdmi:CARD=Generic,DEV=0 HD-Audio Generic, HDMI 0 HDMI Audio Output sysdefault:CARD=Generic_1 HD-Audio Generic, ALC662 rev1 Analog Default Audio Device front:CARD=Generic_1,DEV=0 HD-Audio Generic, ALC662 rev1 Analog Front speakers surround40:CARD=Generic_1,DEV=0 HD-Audio Generic, ALC662 rev1 Analog 4.0 Surround output to Front and Rear speakers surround41:CARD=Generic_1,DEV=0 HD-Audio Generic, ALC662 rev1 Analog 4.1 Surround output to Front, Rear and Subwoofer speakers surround50:CARD=Generic_1,DEV=0 HD-Audio Generic, ALC662 rev1 Analog 5.0 Surround output to Front, Center and Rear speakers surround51:CARD=Generic_1,DEV=0 HD-Audio Generic, ALC662 rev1 Analog 5.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Rear and Subwoofer speakers surround71:CARD=Generic_1,DEV=0 HD-Audio Generic, ALC662 rev1 Analog 7.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Side, Rear and Woofer speakers ====== pulseaudio -vvvvv I: [pulseaudio] main.c: setrlimit(RLIMIT_NICE, (31, 31)) failed: Operation not permitted D: [pulseaudio] core-rtclock.c: Timer slack is set to 50 us. D: [pulseaudio] core-util.c: RealtimeKit worked. I: [pulseaudio] core-util.c: Successfully gained nice level -11. I: [pulseaudio] main.c: This is PulseAudio 2.0 D: [pulseaudio] main.c: Compilation host: i486-pc-linux-gnu D: [pulseaudio] main.c: Compilation CFLAGS: -g -O2 -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wall -W -Wextra -pipe -Wno-long-long -Wvla -Wno-overlength-strings -Wunsafe-loop-optimizations -Wundef -Wformat=2 -Wlogical-op -Wsign-compare -Wformat-security -Wmissing-include-dirs -Wformat-nonliteral -Wpointer-arith -Winit-self -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wfloat-equal -Wmissing-prototypes -Wredundant-decls -Wmissing-declarations -Wmissing-noreturn -Wshadow -Wendif-labels -Wcast-align -Wstrict-aliasing -Wwrite-strings -Wno-unused-parameter -ffast-math -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fno-common -fdiagnostics-show-option D: [pulseaudio] main.c: Running on host: Linux i686 3.2.0-4-686-pae #1 SMP Debian 3.2.41-2+deb7u2 D: [pulseaudio] main.c: Found 2 CPUs. I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Page size is 4096 bytes D: [pulseaudio] main.c: Compiled with Valgrind support: no D: [pulseaudio] main.c: Running in valgrind mode: no D: [pulseaudio] main.c: Running in VM: no D: [pulseaudio] main.c: Optimized build: yes D: [pulseaudio] main.c: FASTPATH defined, only fast path asserts disabled. I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Machine ID is fb99fc5169f6817e9372753d50eb1050. I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Session ID is fb99fc5169f6817e9372753d50eb1050-1369015266.54110-481320772. I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Using runtime directory /home/boudiccas/.pulse/fb99fc5169f6817e9372753d50eb1050-runtime. I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Using state directory /home/boudiccas/.pulse. I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Using modules directory /usr/lib/pulse-2.0/modules. I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Running in system mode: no E: [pulseaudio] pid.c: Daemon already running. E: [pulseaudio] main.c: pa_pid_file_create() failed. ======= cat /proc/asound/cards 0 [Generic ]: HDA-Intel - HD-Audio Generic HD-Audio Generic at 0xfeb44000 irq 43 1 [Generic_1 ]: HDA-Intel - HD-Audio Generic HD-Audio Generic at 0xfeb40000 irq 16 ======= .asoundrc pcm.!default { type hw card 1 } ctl.!default { type hw card 1 } pcm.primary { type hw card 1 device 0 } ######################################## Hopefully someone can help me get it all working nicely? Thanks Sharon. -- A taste of linux = http://www.sharons.org.uk/index.html efever = http://www.efever.blogspot.com/ efever = http://sharon04.livejournal.com/ Debian 7.0, Fluxbox 1.3.5, LibreOffice 4.0.3.3, Claws-Mail 3.9.0-182-g852877 Registered Linux user 334501