PulseAudio

[Michael Cronenworth]

On 03/25/2016 03:21 PM, Richard Ibbotson wrote:
> After running 'pacmd list-sinks' I can see....
>
> 1 sink(s) available.
>    * index: 0
> 	name: <combined>
> 	driver: <module-combine-sink.c>

AFAIK, this is not standard. Have you customized PulseAudio in any way?

You may try renaming ~/.pulse (to ~/.pulse-old) and insuring your /etc/pulse/ files 
are all unmodified. Then restart your system to see if more traditional sinks are 
displayed.