Sorry for the delay on replying, I haven't been able to keep up with emails. On Fri, 2017-09-22 at 12:26 +0530, namittal at codeaurora.org wrote: > (if pulseaudio is not running) > / # amixer cset name='SLIMBUS_0_RX Audio Mixer MultiMedia1' '1' > ALSA lib > /local/mnt/workspace/LE05Sep_stable/poky/build/tmp-glibc/work/armv7a-vfp-neon-oemllib32-linux-gnueabi/lib32-alsa-plugins/1.0.29-r0/alsa-plugins-1.0.29/pulse/pulse.c:243:(pulse_connect) > PulseAudio: Unable to connect: Timeout > amixer: Control default open error: Connection refused This amixer command tries to use the "default" alsa device, which is provided by pulseaudio. To control the hardware mixer, pass the -c0 option to amixer. > 6. I am also attaching the output of "pactl list". > "pactl list cards" detects no cards. Does that mean pulseaudio has no > information about the card? It means that PulseAudio failed to open the sound card using any of the options configured in /usr/share/pulseaudio/alsa-mixer/profile- sets/default.conf. Maybe the mixer settings that you failed to set after installing pulseaudio are required before the sound card can work. -- Tanu https://www.patreon.com/tanuk