pulseaudio is a networked sound server for Unix-like operating systems and Microsoft Windows. It is intended to be an improved drop-in replacement for the Enlightened Sound Daemon (ESOUND). Pulseaudio will need a pulse group/user to run. You can add one with # groupadd -g 216 pulse # useradd -u 216 -g pulse -d /var/lib/pulse pulse See http://slackbuilds.org/uid_gid.txt for details on the uid/gid assignments. Optional deps: jack-audio-connection-kit, avahi, lirc, libasyncns, orc