Waiting for sound system to respond

[Ralf Mardorf]

Perhaps you need to run

# /usr/ports/audio/pulseaudio ; make deinstall

I installed Xfce, but got a working GNOME too, IIRC it was gedit that  
installed GNOME as a dependency, however, I installed GDM and other GNOME  
stuff, but not GNOME 2 directly. I like GNOME 2, but upstream doesn't  
maintain it anymore and GNOME 3 is useless for my needs.

As you can see, I'm on 9.1 too:

root at freebsd:/usr/home/rocketmouse # pkg_info | grep gnome
gnome-desktop-2.32.1_2 Additional UI API for GNOME 2
gnome-doc-utils-0.20.3 GNOME doc utils
gnome-icon-theme-2.31.0_2 A collection of icons for the GNOME 2 desktop
gnome-keyring-2.32.1_2 A program that keeps passwords and other secrets
gnome-media-2.32.0_3 Multimedia applications for the GNOME 2 desktop
gnome-menus-2.30.5  Implementation of the FreeDesktop Desktop Menu Spec
gnome-mime-data-2.18.0_4 A MIME and Application database for GNOME
gnome-mount-0.8_10  A front-end to mount, umount, and eject using HAL
gnome-panel-2.32.1_1 Panel component for the GNOME 2 Desktop
gnome-session-2.32.1_2 Session component for the GNOME 2 desktop
gnome-settings-daemon-2.32.1_4 GNOME 2 settings daemon
gnome-spell-1.0.8_7 A GNOME/Bonobo component for spell checking
gnome-vfs-2.24.4_1  GNOME Virtual File System
gnome_subr-1.0      Common startup and shutdown subroutines used by GNOME  
scrip
gnomehier-2.3_12    A utility port that creates the GNOME directory tree
libgnome-2.32.0_1   Libraries for GNOME, a GNU desktop environment
libgnome-keyring-2.32.0_2 A program that keeps passwords and other secrets
libgnomecanvas-2.30.3_1 A graphics library for GNOME
libgnomecanvasmm-2.26.0_4 C++ wrapper for libgnomecanvas library
libgnomecups-0.2.3_4,1 Support library for gnome cups administration
libgnomekbd-2.32.0_1 GNOME keyboard shared library
libgnomeprint-2.18.8_1 Gnome print support library
libgnomeprintui-2.18.6_1 Gnome print support library
libgnomeui-2.24.4_1 Libraries for the GNOME GUI, a GNU desktop environment
libsoup-gnome-2.34.3_2 A SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol)  
implementation in C
policykit-gnome-0.9.2_6 GNOME frontend to the PolicyKit framework
polkit-gnome-0.99_1 GNOME frontend to the PolicyKit framework
py27-gnome-2.28.1_3 A set of Python bindings for GNOME 2
py27-gnome-desktop-2.32.0_2 A set of Python bindings used by modules in  
the GNOME Deskt
py27-gnome-extras-2.25.3_13 A set of Python bindings for GNOME 2
root at freebsd:/usr/home/rocketmouse # pkg_info | grep pulseaudio
root at freebsd:/usr/home/rocketmouse # uname -rm
9.1-RELEASE amd64

FWIW, "normal" audio out does work with Xfce, I didn't test it with GNOME,  
but I've got issues with using the ADAT interface of my sound card.

Regards,
Ralf