On 17.04.2015 17:00, Borries Demeler wrote: > I am unable to get pulseaudio to work on my Slackware 14.1 system. > It used to work and then for some unknown reason it started to fail. > I needed pulseaudio to get Skype to work, which requires it. I also > had to build a 32-bit binary distro to support Skype, but now I am > at a loss on how to re-activate it and I am clueless as to what broke > the working install. At the core, the problem seems to be related to > pulseaudio's failure to load some alsa modules. Any help would be > greatly appreciated! /etc/pulse contents are attached. > I already tried to remove my ~/.config/pulse directory and recreate it, > to no avail. > > Thanks!!! > > Two things: 1) dbus does not seem to be accessible. 2) pulseaudio does not find the file extra-hdmi.conf (it is no longer needed for pulseaudio 6.0 but I think for 5.0 you need it) I'm not the expert, so not sure if one of the issues above is responsible for your problem. Regards Georg