By way of update, typing: pulseaudio --cleanup-shm <cr> pulseaudio --start <cr> and got no errors from pulseaudio this time. Unfortunately though both mplayer and vlc can connect to streams neither provides any sound output yet. sound card is an nvidia CK804 and pulse appears to have control of it from aplay -L output. The Holy Father is neither jude <jdashiel@shellworld.net>