<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="display: block;" class="yahoo_quoted"><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div class="y_msg_container"><div id="yiv1998461950"><div><div dir="ltr"><font size="2"><font face="Arial">></font></font>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 clear="none"></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 clear="none"></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><br></div></div></div>Well, you know more than me. First question: can I assume this is causing me to not be able to play sounds? If this the right direction for me to look?<br><br>I don't know what jackd is and there is no file named jackd on my entire system.<br><br>Second question: how would I learn why it can't find free hardware ports? Is there a log file somewhere that tells me what is hogging the ALSA hardware devices, whatever they are?<br><br>What do I read? What would you do next if this was your system?<br><br><br><br><br><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div> </div></body></html>