I have managed to solve this by completely purging pulseaudio. I then logged out and in (no startup sounds etc) and reinstalled pulseaudio. On the next restart everything works as it should.
I had previously upgraded to 11.10 and then 12.04 rather than fresh installs. Perhaps something has changed in the config files or libraries that was screwing with it. There is now a lot more info in the new ubuntu sound menu (Looks great by the way!) Prior to this I had also deleted /etc/pulse on the recommendation of a post somewhere on the web. Not sure if this folder would have also been removed with a pulseaudio purge. Hope this helps someone get their system back -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/978248 Title: No soundcards detected by pulseaudio, but visible from ALSA To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/+bug/978248/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
