On 02/11/14 08:24, Mark LaPierre wrote: > Does anyone have any idea where I can start looking to figure out what's > going on with my wife's sound hardware detection? > I've been having the same issue on my system as well (Ubuntu 14.04) and I noticed that pulseaudio was not loading - not sure if this is something to do with an update gone bad or what. I'm currently being forced to start pulseaudio manually and hoping that another update will resolve it: $ killall pulseaudio && pulseaudio -D Cheers, ak.