Did you assigned profile for you sound card in pavucontrol as I described? Give me outputs of: $ pactl list cards $ pactl list sinks
On 26.09.2017 21:04, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > 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,