I experienced the same issue after the Jaunty upgrade. (amd64 architecture)
~$ pulseaudio I: caps.c: Limited capabilities successfully to CAP_SYS_NICE. I: caps.c: Dropping root privileges. I: caps.c: Limited capabilities successfully to CAP_SYS_NICE. N: main.c: Called SUID root and real-time and/or high-priority scheduling was requested in the configuration. However, we lack the necessary privileges: N: main.c: We are not in group 'pulse-rt', PolicyKit refuse to grant us the requested privileges and we have no increase RLIMIT_NICE/RLIMIT_RTPRIO resource limits. N: main.c: For enabling real-time/high-priority scheduling please acquire the appropriate PolicyKit privileges, or become a member of 'pulse-rt', or increase the RLIMIT_NICE/RLIMIT_RTPRIO resource limits for this user. W: alsa-util.c: Device front:0 doesn't support 44100 Hz, changed to 48000 Hz. W: alsa-util.c: Device front:0 doesn't support 44100 Hz, changed to 48000 Hz. W: alsa-util.c: Device hw:1 doesn't support 44100 Hz, changed to 16000 Hz. W: alsa-util.c: Device hw:1 doesn't support 2 channels, changed to 1. W: module-alsa-source.c: Your kernel driver is broken: it reports a volume range from 23.00 dB to 23.00 dB which makes no sense. Please post, how you solved this! -- no sound on Ubuntu 9.04 beta https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/353415 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs