On Tue, 26 Sep 2017, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote:
Yes. It looks like sound card was detected and initialized, but Pulse Audio was unable to set it as "default" automatically. Have you tried to list and use available cards from alsa perspective (your device names may be different)? $ aplay -l | grep ALC card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: ALC887-VD Analog
up to now, pulseaudio always failed, but at last I could start it after removing the ~/.config/pulse directory. I could then run pavucontrol, kmix, pactl, but still impossible to have sound through the speaker, even after: ==> pactl set-sink-port 1 analog-output-speaker ==> pactl set-sink-port analog-output-speaker using the devices given by "aplay -L", I only get the sound through the headphone, Idem with vlc(output set to pulse) with ==>speaker-test -Dpulse -c 2 -t wav , I get: speaker-test 1.1.3 Playback device is pulse Stream parameters are 48000Hz, S16_LE, 2 channels WAV file(s) ALSA lib pcm.c:2495:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM pulse Playback open error: -2,No such file or directory best regards, -- Pierre Frenkiel