I hope this is the right place to raise this topic. I am running Ubuntu 11.10 which installs Pulse and JACK by default. Sound works fine with most things but not with Google Talk. To get sound to work with GT I have to Quit JACK. I have read that if I can configure Pulse correctly that GT can be made to work with JACK running. I am trying to follow the Debian HOWTO and PerfectSetup. I get lost quite quickly ... A few questions to start with: 1. Should my user be a member of the "audio" group or not? I have found both as recommended. 2. Do I need to enable Simultaneous Output in PA Preferences? 3. If I do enable Simultaneous Output I can't start pulseaudio: tony@ubuntu:~$ pulseaudio -D E: [pulseaudio] main.c: Daemon startup failed. tony@ubuntu:~$ pulseaudio W: [pulseaudio] pid.c: Stale PID file, overwriting. W: [pulseaudio] module.c: module-combine is deprecated: Please use module-combine-sink instead of module-combine! W: [pulseaudio] module-combine.c: We will now load module-combine-sink. Please make sure to remove module-combine from your configuration. Killed tony@ubuntu:~$ syslog: Jan 11 20:50:25 ubuntu pulseaudio[7434]: [pulseaudio] pid.c: Stale PID file, overwriting. Jan 11 20:50:25 ubuntu pulseaudio[7434]: [pulseaudio] module.c: module-combine is deprecated: Please use module-combine-sink instead of module-combine! Jan 11 20:50:25 ubuntu pulseaudio[7434]: [pulseaudio] module-combine.c: We will now load module-combine-sink. Please make sure to remove module-combine from your configuration. Jan 11 20:50:26 ubuntu pulseaudio[7422]: [pulseaudio] main.c: Daemon startup failed. Jan 11 19:50:29 ubuntu rtkit-daemon[1496]: Successfully made thread 7441 of process 7441 (n/a) owned by '1000' high priority at nice level -11. Jan 11 19:50:29 ubuntu rtkit-daemon[1496]: Supervising 1 threads of 1 processes of 1 users. Jan 11 20:50:29 ubuntu pulseaudio[7441]: [pulseaudio] pid.c: Stale PID file, overwriting. Jan 11 20:50:29 ubuntu pulseaudio[7441]: [pulseaudio] module.c: module-combine is deprecated: Please use module-combine-sink instead of module-combine! Jan 11 20:50:29 ubuntu pulseaudio[7441]: [pulseaudio] module-combine.c: We will now load module-combine-sink. Please make sure to remove module-combine from your configuration. Jan 11 19:50:34 ubuntu rtkit-daemon[1496]: Successfully made thread 7446 of process 7446 (n/a) owned by '1000' high priority at nice level -11. Jan 11 19:50:34 ubuntu rtkit-daemon[1496]: Supervising 1 threads of 1 processes of 1 users. Any advice please? Tony