On R14 I have the following sound packages installed:

libpulse 4.0-6 pulseaudio 4.0-6 pulseaudio-alsa 2-2

$ aplay /opt/trinity/share/sounds/KDE_Window_UnSticky.wav

ALSA lib confmisc.c:768:(parse_card) cannot find card '0' ALSA lib conf.c:4248:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_card_driver returned error: No such file or directory ALSA lib confmisc.c:392:(snd_func_concat) error evaluating strings ALSA lib conf.c:4248:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_concat returned error: No such file or directory ALSA lib confmisc.c:1251:(snd_func_refer) error evaluating name ALSA lib conf.c:4248:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer returned error: No such file or directory ALSA lib conf.c:4727:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such file or directory ALSA lib pcm.c:2239:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM sysdefault aplay: main:722: audio open error: No such file or directory

$ aplay -l

aplay: device_list:268: no soundcards found...

$ aplay -L

null Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture) pulse PulseAudio Sound Server default Default ALSA Output (currently PulseAudio Sound Server)

This gets more interesting comparing the sound modules loaded in the 3513 install and the R14 install:

3513:

Module Size Used by snd_intel8x0 22768 2 snd_ac97_codec 89868 1 snd_intel8x0 ac97_bus 874 1 snd_ac97_codec snd_pcm 61237 2 snd_ac97_codec,snd_intel8x0 snd_page_alloc 5901 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm snd_timer 14902 1 snd_pcm snd 44394 8 snd_ac97_codec,snd_intel8x0,snd_timer,snd_pcm soundcore 4378 1 snd

R14:

Module Size Used by snd_intel8x0 23757 0 snd_ac97_codec 89404 1 snd_intel8x0 ac97_bus 878 1 snd_ac97_codec snd_pcm 63880 2 snd_ac97_codec,snd_intel8x0 snd_page_alloc 5978 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm snd_timer 14946 1 snd_pcm snd 44598 4 snd_ac97_codec,snd_intel8x0,snd_timer,snd_pcm soundcore 4386 1 snd

They are identical, so what ever is going on with R14, it has exactly the same modules loaded and available that 3.5.13 does, but for some reason it is not seeing the sound card or anything associated with it.

pulseaudio: I know nothing and hope to keep my life that way. :)

If the aplay command responds then you have ALSA installed. (I thought ALSA and pulseaudio were incompatible.)

Try this:

alsactl init

Also in KControl->Sound & Multimedia->Sound System, verify the sound system is enabled in the General tab, then look in the Hardware tab for the audio device selection.

Darrell