I tried that with no luck. I set it to
[audio]
driver=alsa
also tried all caps, ALSA and pulseaudio. Nothing. They all give slightly different errors. But they all fail.

Here is when it's set to alsa

0.000 2017-05-28 18:36:03; Factorio 0.15.16 (build 30063, linux64, steam)
0.000 Operating ...

Awesome! That makes sense. I wish it said that somewhere in the config file. Thanks for the quick reply!

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