Hello Folks,

I've a problem with sound card & most of this new laptop components with Kali 2020, the Sadly the Dell Tech Support wasn't beneficial at all.

kali:~$ uname -r
5.6.0-kali2-amd64


@kali:~$ pulseaudio -D
E: [pulseaudio] main.c: Daemon startup failed.

@kali:~$ pulseaudio -v
I: [pulseaudio] main.c: setrlimit(RLIMIT_NICE, (31, 31)) failed: Operation not permitted
I: [pulseaudio] main.c: setrlimit(RLIMIT_RTPRIO, (9, 9)) failed: Operation not permitted
I: [pulseaudio] core-util.c: Successfully gained nice level -11.
I: [pulseaudio] main.c: This is PulseAudio 13.0
I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Page size is 4096 bytes
I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Machine ID is ff3f7ef48fcb42bb8030718782090aef.
I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Using runtime directory /run/user/1000/pulse.
I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Using state directory /home/imk/.config/pulse.
I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Using modules directory /usr/lib/pulse-13.0/modules.
I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Running in system mode: no
E: [pulseaudio] pid.c: Daemon already running.
E: [pulseaudio] main.c: pa_pid_file_create() failed.



The print out of Alsamixer

Screenshot from 2020-06-06 08-51-44.jpg


Any advice?