I'm experiencing the problem to. I think killing pulseaudio just force Gnome to switch to ALSA.... :\
The sound is working fine before logging in (but at this time pulseaudio is not running yet, so I guess this sound is played with ALSA, correct ?). After logging in in Gnome, trying to play a sound file from a terminal doesn't work either : [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ paplay Audio.wav Stream errror: Invalid argument Trying to figure out what's going wrong I grab those messages in my /var/log/syslog logfile : May 2 21:15:15 Hardy pulseaudio[6494]: alsa-util.c: Device hw:0 doesn't support 2 channels, changed to 10. May 2 21:15:15 Hardy pulseaudio[6494]: alsa-util.c: Device hw:0 doesn't support sample format s16le, changed to s32le. May 2 21:15:15 Hardy pulseaudio[6494]: alsa-util.c: Cannot find fallback mixer control "PCM". May 2 21:15:15 Hardy pulseaudio[6494]: module-alsa-sink.c: Failed to create sink object May 2 21:15:15 Hardy pulseaudio[6494]: module.c: Failed to load module "module-alsa-sink" (argument: "device_id=0 sink_name=alsa_output.pci_1412_1712_sound_card_0_alsa_playback_0"): initialization failed. May 2 21:15:15 Hardy pulseaudio[6494]: alsa-util.c: Device hw:0 doesn't support 2 channels, changed to 12. May 2 21:15:15 Hardy pulseaudio[6494]: alsa-util.c: Device hw:0 doesn't support sample format s16le, changed to s32le. May 2 21:15:15 Hardy pulseaudio[6494]: alsa-util.c: Cannot find fallback mixer control "Mic". May 2 21:15:15 Hardy pulseaudio[6494]: module-alsa-source.c: Failed to create source object May 2 21:15:15 Hardy pulseaudio[6494]: module.c: Failed to load module "module-alsa-source" (argument: "device_id=0 source_name=alsa_input.pci_1412_1712_sound_card_0_alsa_capture_0"): initialization failed. -- "Failed to connect stream: Invalid argument" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/191027 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