Hi, I am trying to adapt myself to pulseaudio (F8 x86_64). I had to change /etc/security/console.perms.d/50-default.perms so I can use another X screen (:1) without being root, and without using pulse. Otherwise, I hear no sound using mplayer (this is how I send a movie to an ordinary TV). After testing several applications, this is what I got so far trying to use pulseaudio with plugins (not using alsa generic plugin): MythTV: NO sound at all (therefore, pulse can not be a global default for me) mplayer (patched): OK mplayerplug-in: OK rhythmbox: OK amarok: OK xmms: OK audacious 1.4: OK with ESD (stutters a lot with its own pulse plugin). mpd 0.13: NO sound (it has the plugin, though). ampache (flash player): OK xine: NO. Sound disappears after a few seconds. vlc: NO plugin available. Also, after an interval of time of maybe 10 to 20 min I hear a fast hiccup using amarock. I mean, the sound vanishes (but it is very fast), and it will happen again 10 min later, and so on... I also noticed that using arecord -D hw:0.0 -d 0 -f S16_LE -c2 -r48000 | aplay -D pulse & for capturing from line in. I have two sound cards: [cascavel:~/SRPMS/vlc] more /proc/asound/cards 0 [Intel ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel HDA Intel at 0x92300000 irq 22 1 [VirMIDI ]: VirMIDI - VirMIDI Virtual MIDI Card 1 2 [Bt878 ]: Bt87x - Brooktree Bt878 Brooktree Bt878 at 0x92000000, irq 18 3 [CMI8738 ]: CMI8738-MC6 - C-Media CMI8738 C-Media CMI8738 (model 55) at 0x1000, irq 21 The good part, is that I can switch between sound cards very easily and switch users and resume what I was playing before in gnome. Sorry if I am writing to the wrong list, but I think this kind of information can be useful for the developers. Thank you. -- Paulo Roma Cavalcanti LCG - UFRJ