pulseaudio killing sound on Karmic
Colin Law
clanlaw at googlemail.com
Tue Dec 15 08:58:59 UTC 2009
2009/12/14 Mark C. Miller <mr.mcmiller at gmail.com>:
> On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 21:01:51 +0000, Colin Law wrote:
>
>> Hi
>> I have Ubuntu 9.10 installed on a Toshiba A100-197. Sound was not
>> working and when looked at the devices in the pulseaudio volume control
>> all I saw was Dummy Output (or something similar). When I played
>> something the output could be seen in the amplitude bars but no sound
>> was heard.
>>
>> After a lot of googling and trying various things I discovered that if I
>> remove pulseaudio and use the alsa mixer directly it works ok, which
>> came as a surprise to me as up till then I had assumed that it was a
>> lower level problem. When I install pulseaudio again the sound stops.
>> I have fiddled with settings in pulseaudio to no avail. Any
>> suggestions as to how to analyse or fix the problem?
>>
>> aplay -l shows
>> card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: ALC861 Analog [ALC861 Analog]
>> Subdevices: 1/1
>> Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
>> card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 6: Si3054 Modem [Si3054 Modem]
>> Subdevices: 0/1
>> Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
>>
>> Colin
>
> I lost my audio when I upgraded to 9.10. I installed pulse audio and
> then I played around with it for a long time until I found the following
> combination:
>
> system
> sound preferences
> output
> analog mono output/no amplifier
>
Thanks for the suggestion but unfortunately that is not an option for
me as I only have Dummy Output available.
Colin
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