>Susan Cragin wrote: >> Now the same steps appear to produce no sound at all. Although I get no error messages, the program does not respond. > >Have you removed pulseaudio plugin from alsa config? That was one place not too easy to find and was making pulse to comeback all the time. >Don't know which config file was it, search for anything "pulse" under /etc. Under /etc/pulse I think the one you mean is client.conf autospawn=yes has to be changed to no. Did that already. Critical to do so, but that does not appear to be my problem. Thanks for asking.