<div dir="ltr">I guess you may have something already hogging up the ALSA hardware devices before pulseaudio starts. Perhaps you installed and activated jackd or some other audio system.<div><br></div><div>When pulseaudio starts, it cannot find any free hardware ports to connect to and falls back to load a null audio sink.</div>
<div><br></div><div>That's just a wild guess, but there are a bazillion of possibilities why it fails, so I don't have any insights to share with you.</div><div><br></div><div>Regards,<br>Daniel</div></div><div class="gmail_extra">
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2013/12/1 James Board <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jpboard2@yahoo.com" target="_blank">jpboard2@yahoo.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div style="font-family:HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div>I ran pacmd and then 'list-sinks' and it tells me one sink is available and the name is <auto_null>. Does that mean it can't find the audio device? The output of dmesg tells me that my audio device is" Intel 82801JI (ICH10 Family) HD Audio Controller.<br>
<br>Does the above info help provide clue why my sound isn't working?<br><br><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div> </div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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