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   rc.pulseaudio seems to require that you boot into X, which   
   I do not.   
      
   When I start the system with an executable rc.pulseaudio   
   there seems to be a daemon running, but it is non-functional.   
      
   The only way that pacmd commands can be run, is to   
   start X, killall pulseaudio, and start pulseaudio from   
   an Xterm. I may be able to export a DISPLAY within   
   rc.pulseaudio, but I am now sick and tired of rebooting   
   the system that allowed me to find the bug.   
      
   There is another problem with pulseaudio: there can be   
   a bug in the config files that you don't see when   
   rc.pulseaudio is invoked, but you can't tell the problem   
   is in the config file.   
      
   With all this, I still can't find an entry that works   
   as a default sink. I went into bios to defeat the   
   sound card on the motherboard to get this far, but   
   the pacmd list-sinks doesn't tell me what to   
   enter in the client.conf. With only the NVidia   
   sound card, pactl info lists the sound as the   
   NVidia card but I still don't get sound with Chrome,   
   nor with, say, MPlayer unless I use the -ao option.   
      
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