Hi, all, I followed Kirk's advice and moved the alsa-puls-conf file out of service and it made no difference. When I typed: ps aux | grep pulse, I got the following on the standard out: 112 3335 0.0 0.3 233144 6232 ? S<l 14:04 0:00 /usr/bin/pulseaudio --start --log-target=syslog after rebooting. I didn't log in to a gnome session. Thank you, Craig Martin