On Wed, 2012-08-29 at 11:54 +0200, Arno Gaboury wrote:
I am totally lost on this issue, especially the fact that my sound card is not recognized with $aplay -l
I bet your soundcard is able to record ;), but only playing doesn't work. Get rid of PA, if you don't need it for something special. I installed $ pacman -Qi pulseaudio-dummy Name : pulseaudio-dummy Version : 1.0-1 URL : None Licenses : BSD Groups : None Provides : pulseaudio Depends On : None Optional Deps : None Required By : gnome-settings-daemon pulseaudio-alsa Conflicts With : pulseaudio Replaces : None Installed Size : 4.00 KiB Packager : Unknown Packager Architecture : any Build Date : Sun 15 Jan 2012 01:43:53 AM CET Install Date : Sun 15 Jan 2012 01:45:38 AM CET Install Reason : Explicitly installed Install Script : No Description : A dummy package that pretends to provide pulseaudio. Regards, Ralf