Hello, In the Message; Subject : Re: Sound card configuration problem Message-ID : <1b039eac-2a0e-e6d1-cb0a-ea1146ed50c2@ariannuccia.de> Date & Time: Wed, 30 Jun 2021 12:35:30 +0200 [WM] == Wolfgang Mueller <wm@ariannuccia.de> has written: [...] MN> > What messages do you get with this? MN> > $ pulseaudio WM> Invoked as "pulseaudio" by root, it says: WM> "W: [pulseaudio] main.c: This program is not intended to be run as root (unless WM> --system is specified)." WM> Invoked as "pulseaudio" by a user, its reply is: WM> "E: [pulseaudio] core-util.c: Home directory not accessible: Permission denied" WM> If the system did not keep secret the home directory's name, I WM> could do a "chmod 777". WM> Invoked as "sudo pulseaudio" by a user, it produces these 3 lines: WM> [1] "W: [pulseaudio] main.c: This program is not intended to be run as root WM> (unless --system is specified)." WM> [2] "W: [pulseaudio] server-lookup.c: Unable to contact D-Bus: WM> org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NotSupported: Unable to autolaunch a dbus-daemon WM> without a $DISPLAY for X11" WM> [3] "W: [pulseaudio] main.c: Unable to contact D-Bus: WM> org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NotSupported: Unable to autolaunch a dbus-daemon WM> without a $DISPLAY for X11" Please try as an user, not necessary as a root. Anyway, 1. please check this works or not; $ export DISPLAY=:0 $ pulseaudio 2. if works, goto 3., if not got 5 3. $ echo DISPLAY=:0 >> ~/.bashrc $ source ~/.bashrc after this, $ pulseaudio If works, just show the results of; 4.1 $ pacmd list-cards 4.2 $ pacmd list snd 4.3 $ pacmd list-sinks 4.4 $ aplay -L 5. If you still get the D-Bus related error messages; please show the output of this; $ cat DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS Regards. at 8:80 PM JST. --- ┏━━┓彡 Masaru Nomiya mail-to: nomiya @ galaxy.dti.ne.jp ┃＼／彡 ┗━━┛ "Bill! You married with Computer. Not with Me!" "No..., with money."