Upon booting with dkms+dotdeb#29 installed, had triple-dash by spkr-icon in systray (still have autospawn=no). Ran espeak, worked (same errors as usual). Ran speaker-test, found new and interesting problems. $ speaker-test -D default -t wav -c 6 -l 1 speaker-test 1.0.25 Playback device is default Stream parameters are 48000Hz, S16_LE, 6 channels WAV file(s) Rate set to 48000Hz (requested 48000Hz) Buffer size range from 2048 to 8192 Period size range from 1024 to 1024 Using max buffer size 8192 Periods = 4 was set period_size = 1024 was set buffer_size = 8192 0 - Front Left 4 - Center Write error: -32,Broken pipe Write error: -32,Broken pipe 1 - Front Right Write error: -32,Broken pipe Write error: -32,Broken pipe 3 - Rear Right Write error: -32,Broken pipe Write error: -32,Broken pipe 2 - Rear Left Write error: -32,Broken pipe Write error: -32,Broken pipe 5 - LFE Write error: -32,Broken pipe Time per period = 26.014328 FrontLeft and FrontRight functioned... there was also some audible pop-pop sounds during the test, and FrontRight was not a clean playback-attempt (it paused-slash-glitched in the middle of the words). See also, errors above. Alsa-info.txt attached Next, started up pulseaudio, which caused the systray-spkr-icon to have rparens again. j@j-P180HMx:~$ ps aux | grep -i pulseaudio | grep -v grep j@j-P180HMx:~$ pulseaudio --start j@j-P180HMx:~$ ps aux | grep -i pulseaudio | grep -v grep j 3032 7.5 0.0 418176 5664 ? S