Gnome: waiting for sound system to respond

Here's the gist of my problem: After logging into gnome, I try to go to the sound preferences dialog and I'm confronted with the message:
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Waiting for sound system to respond
This message never goes away, and the preferences dialog never presents itself.


Here's the details about my system:

I've performed a clean install of FreeBSD 8.2 amd64 onto a Shuttle XS35GT nettop (nVidia ION, Intel Atom processor).

After the base install was complete, I upgrade my ports and built xorg and gnome2-lite using make install clean. I installed the latest nVidia drivers and determined the appropriate sound driver (snd_hda.ko).

Here's my /boot/loader.conf:

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snd_hda_load="YES"
nvidia_load="YES"

My rc.conf:

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ifconfig_jme0="DHCP"
sshd_enable="YES"
linux_enable="YES"
gnome_enable="YES"

The contents of /dev/sndstat:

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FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm: 64bit 2009061500/amd64)
Installed devices:
pcm0: <HDA IDT 92HD81B1C PCM #0 Analog> (play/rec) default
pcm1: <HDA IDT 92HD81B1C PCM #1 Analog> (rec)
pcm2: <HDA NVidia (Unknown) PCM #0 DisplayPort> (play)
pcm3: <HDA NVidia (Unknown) PCM #0 DisplayPort> (play)
pcm4: <HDA NVidia (Unknown) PCM #0 DisplayPort> (play)
pcm5: <HDA NVidia (Unknown) PCM #0 DisplayPort> (play)

The result of mixer:

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Mixer vol      is currently set to  75:75
Mixer pcm      is currently set to  75:75
Mixer speaker  is currently set to  75:75
Mixer mic      is currently set to   0:0
Mixer mix      is currently set to   0:0
Mixer rec      is currently set to  75:75
Mixer ogain    is currently set to  50:50
Recording source: mic

Performing [cmd=]cat /dev/random > /dev/dsp[/cmd] produces an audible sound.

The pulseaudio process is running:

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 1222  ??  Is     0:00.36 /usr/local/bin/pulseaudio --start --log-target=syslog

The last few messages output to /var/log/messages:

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Nov 14 23:27:11  pulseaudio[1222]: module.c: module-detect is deprecated: Please use module-udev-detect instead of module-detect!
Nov 14 23:27:11  pulseaudio[1222]: oss-util.c: '/dev/dsp1' doesn't support full duplex
Nov 14 23:27:11  pulseaudio[1222]: oss-util.c: '/dev/dsp2' doesn't support full duplex
Nov 14 23:27:11  pulseaudio[1222]: oss-util.c: '/dev/dsp3' doesn't support full duplex
Nov 14 23:27:11  pulseaudio[1222]: oss-util.c: '/dev/dsp4' doesn't support full duplex
Nov 14 23:27:11  pulseaudio[1222]: oss-util.c: '/dev/dsp5' doesn't support full duplex
Nov 14 23:27:12  pulseaudio[1238]: pid.c: Daemon already running.
Nov 14 23:27:12  pulseaudio[1241]: pid.c: Daemon already running.
Nov 14 23:27:12  pulseaudio[1252]: pid.c: Daemon already running.

The result of kldstat:

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Id Refs Address            Size     Name
 1   18 0xffffffff80100000 c9fe20   kernel
 2    1 0xffffffff80da0000 24d98    snd_hda.ko
 3    2 0xffffffff80dc5000 75668    sound.ko
 4    1 0xffffffff80e3b000 10498d0  nvidia.ko
 5    2 0xffffffff81e85000 42558    linux.ko
 6    1 0xffffffff82022000 4ee5     tmpfs.ko

Does anyone have any idea why this might be happening? The first thing I did before building any ports was a [cmd=]portsnap fetch[/cmd][cmd=]portsnap extract[/cmd] so I'm assuming they are up to date.

Thanks!
Andrew
 
Pulseaudio is always causing issues. And you don't need it. Audio will work fine without it.
 
What do I need to do to get rid of pulseaudio? I don't hear any sound from any application in Gnome, so something must be wrong.
 
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