[Bug 444950] Re: sound stops working with pulseaudio

[Bill]

Here too, on a W500, 32-bit with PAE, Lucid.

/home/bgh > aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: CONEXANT Analog [CONEXANT Analog]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 1: Conexant Digital [Conexant Digital]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

/var/log > dpkg -l | grep -i pulseaudio
ii  gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio           0.10.21-1ubuntu2                   GStreamer plugin for PulseAudio
ii  libcanberra-pulse                  0.22-1ubuntu2                      PulseAudio backend for libcanberra
ii  libpulse-browse0                   1:0.9.22~0.9.21+stable-queue-32-g8 PulseAudio client libraries (zeroconf support)
ii  libpulse-dev                       1:0.9.22~0.9.21+stable-queue-32-g8 PulseAudio client development headers and libraries
ii  libpulse-mainloop-glib0            1:0.9.22~0.9.21+stable-queue-32-g8 PulseAudio client libraries (glib support)
ii  libpulse0                          1:0.9.22~0.9.21+stable-queue-32-g8 PulseAudio client libraries
ii  libsdl1.2debian-pulseaudio         1.2.14-4ubuntu1                    Simple DirectMedia Layer (with X11 and PulseAudio options)
ii  libsox-fmt-pulse                   14.3.0-1.1build1                   SoX PulseAudio format I/O library
ii  padevchooser                       0.9.3-2ubuntu4                     PulseAudio Device Chooser
ii  paman                              0.9.4-1ubuntu2                     PulseAudio Manager
ii  paprefs                            0.9.9-2ubuntu1                     PulseAudio Preferences
ii  pavucontrol                        0.9.9-1                            PulseAudio Volume Control
ii  pavumeter                          0.9.3-1ubuntu1                     PulseAudio Volume Meter
ii  pulseaudio                         1:0.9.22~0.9.21+stable-queue-32-g8 PulseAudio sound server
ii  pulseaudio-esound-compat           1:0.9.22~0.9.21+stable-queue-32-g8 PulseAudio ESD compatibility layer
ii  pulseaudio-module-bluetooth        1:0.9.22~0.9.21+stable-queue-32-g8 Bluetooth module for PulseAudio sound server
ii  pulseaudio-module-gconf            1:0.9.22~0.9.21+stable-queue-32-g8 GConf module for PulseAudio sound server
ii  pulseaudio-module-x11              1:0.9.22~0.9.21+stable-queue-32-g8 X11 module for PulseAudio sound server
ii  pulseaudio-module-zeroconf         1:0.9.22~0.9.21+stable-queue-32-g8 Zeroconf module for PulseAudio sound server
ii  pulseaudio-utils                   1:0.9.22~0.9.21+stable-queue-32-g8 Command line tools for the PulseAudio sound server
ii  vlc-plugin-pulse                   1.0.6-1ubuntu1.1                   PulseAudio plugin for VLC
ii  xmms2-plugin-pulse                 0.7DrNo-4ubuntu1                   XMMS2 - PulseAudio output plug-in

Just a taste of the high rates I'm seeing:

Jun 13 20:06:58 wall-e pulseaudio[16000]: ratelimit.c: 461 events suppressed
Jun 13 20:22:47 wall-e pulseaudio[16000]: ratelimit.c: 404 events suppressed
Jun 13 20:48:16 wall-e pulseaudio[16000]: ratelimit.c: 397 events suppressed
Jun 13 20:48:43 wall-e pulseaudio[16000]: ratelimit.c: 394 events suppressed
Jun 13 20:48:56 wall-e pulseaudio[16000]: ratelimit.c: 399 events suppressed
Jun 13 20:51:29 wall-e pulseaudio[16000]: ratelimit.c: 393 events suppressed
Jun 13 20:52:18 wall-e pulseaudio[16000]: ratelimit.c: 392 events suppressed
Jun 13 20:55:56 wall-e pulseaudio[16000]: ratelimit.c: 393 events suppressed
Jun 13 20:57:26 wall-e pulseaudio[16000]: ratelimit.c: 429 events suppressed
Jun 13 20:57:38 wall-e pulseaudio[16000]: ratelimit.c: 461 events suppressed
Jun 13 20:57:50 wall-e pulseaudio[16000]: ratelimit.c: 470 events suppressed

I'll bet powertop would not like this kind of activity over those short
durations!

Lastly, my thinkpad w500-specific error:

Jun 14 09:03:51 wall-e nautilus: [N-A] Nautilus-Actions Tracker 2.30.2 initializing...
Jun 14 09:03:51 wall-e nautilus: [N-A] Nautilus-Actions Menu Extender 2.30.2 initializing...
Jun 14 09:33:58 wall-e pulseaudio[4551]: module-alsa-card.c: Failed to find a working profile.
Jun 14 09:33:58 wall-e pulseaudio[4551]: module.c: Failed to load  module "module-alsa-card" (argument: "device_id="29" name="platform-thinkpad_acpi" card_name="alsa_card.platform-thinkpad_acpi" tsched=yes ignore_dB=no card_properties="module-udev-detect.discovered=1""): initialization failed.

Thanks for looking into this.

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sound stops working with pulseaudio
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/444950
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