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-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to alsa-driver in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1289811 Title: Audio lost, sound device dissapears briefly when using VLC and 5.1 output with SoundBlaster Audigy SE and Ubuntu 12.04.4 Status in “alsa-driver” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: Possible error with driver snd_ca0106 inside ALSA on Ubuntu 12.04.4 (new installation). When using VLC with a SoundBlaster Audigy SE PCI and 5.1 Speakers Output, often sound stops working and audio device is missing, after 10-30 seconds audio device returns and if I restart VLC, audio returns. This is what syslog shows when that happens: Mar 8 11:16:36 8300-CMT rtkit-daemon[1821]: Successfully made thread 20626 of process 20144 (n/a) owned by '1000' RT at priority 5. Mar 8 11:16:36 8300-CMT rtkit-daemon[1821]: Supervising 5 threads of 1 processes of 1 users. Mar 8 11:17:01 8300-CMT CRON[20639]: (root) CMD ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly) Mar 8 11:22:06 8300-CMT pulseaudio[20776]: [pulseaudio] main.c: Servidor configurado por usuario en {53979ae799832e7f5deb1bbd00000004}unix:/home/jorejarena/.pulse/53979ae799832e7f5deb1bbd00000004-runtime/native, que parece ser local. Probando más a fondo. Mar 8 11:22:06 8300-CMT rtkit-daemon[1821]: Successfully made thread 20779 of process 20779 (n/a) owned by '1000' high priority at nice level -11. Mar 8 11:22:06 8300-CMT rtkit-daemon[1821]: Supervising 1 threads of 1 processes of 1 users. Mar 8 11:22:06 8300-CMT pulseaudio[20779]: [pulseaudio] pid.c: Stale PID file, overwriting. Mar 8 11:22:06 8300-CMT rtkit-daemon[1821]: Successfully made thread 20780 of process 20779 (n/a) owned by '1000' RT at priority 5. Mar 8 11:22:06 8300-CMT rtkit-daemon[1821]: Supervising 2 threads of 1 processes of 1 users. Mar 8 11:22:11 8300-CMT pulseaudio[20782]: [pulseaudio] main.c: Servidor configurado por usuario en {53979ae799832e7f5deb1bbd00000004}unix:/home/jorejarena/.pulse/53979ae799832e7f5deb1bbd00000004-runtime/native, que parece ser local. Probando más a fondo. Mar 8 11:22:11 8300-CMT pulseaudio[20783]: [pulseaudio] main.c: Servidor configurado por usuario en {53979ae799832e7f5deb1bbd00000004}unix:/home/jorejarena/.pulse/53979ae799832e7f5deb1bbd00000004-runtime/native, que parece ser local. Probando más a fondo. Mar 8 11:22:11 8300-CMT kernel: [ 4959.264535] 3:3:1: cannot get freq at ep 0x82 Mar 8 11:22:16 8300-CMT kernel: [ 4964.268888] 3:3:1: cannot get freq at ep 0x82 Mar 8 11:22:22 8300-CMT kernel: [ 4969.693450] 3:3:1: cannot get freq at ep 0x82 Mar 8 11:22:27 8300-CMT kernel: [ 4974.697672] 3:3:1: cannot get freq at ep 0x82 Mar 8 11:22:27 8300-CMT rtkit-daemon[1821]: Successfully made thread 20786 of process 20779 (n/a) owned by '1000' RT at priority 5. Mar 8 11:22:27 8300-CMT rtkit-daemon[1821]: Supervising 3 threads of 1 processes of 1 users. Mar 8 11:22:27 8300-CMT rtkit-daemon[1821]: Successfully made thread 20787 of process 20779 (n/a) owned by '1000' RT at priority 5. Mar 8 11:22:27 8300-CMT rtkit-daemon[1821]: Supervising 4 threads of 1 processes of 1 users. Mar 8 11:22:27 8300-CMT rtkit-daemon[1821]: Successfully made thread 20788 of process 20779 (n/a) owned by '1000' RT at priority 5. Mar 8 11:22:27 8300-CMT rtkit-daemon[1821]: Supervising 5 threads of 1 processes of 1 users. Mar 8 11:22:27 8300-CMT rtkit-daemon[1821]: Successfully made thread 20791 of process 20791 (n/a) owned by '1000' high priority at nice level -11. Mar 8 11:22:27 8300-CMT rtkit-daemon[1821]: Supervising 6 threads of 2 processes of 1 users. Mar 8 11:22:27 8300-CMT pulseaudio[20791]: [pulseaudio] pid.c: Daemon already running. Mar 8 11:22:27 8300-CMT rtkit-daemon[1821]: Successfully made thread 20793 of process 20793 (n/a) owned by '1000' high priority at nice level -11. Mar 8 11:22:27 8300-CMT rtkit-daemon[1821]: Supervising 6 threads of 2 processes of 1 users. Mar 8 11:22:27 8300-CMT pulseaudio[20793]: [pulseaudio] pid.c: Daemon already running. Mar 8 11:22:27 8300-CMT pulseaudio[20779]: [alsa-sink] alsa-sink.c: ALSA nos despertó para escribir nuevos datos al dispositivo, ¡pero en realidad no hay nada para escribir! Mar 8 11:22:27 8300-CMT pulseaudio[20779]: [alsa-sink] alsa-sink.c: Probablemente sea un error en el controlador ALSA «snd_ca0106». Informe esto a los desarrolladores de ALSA. Mar 8 11:22:27 8300-CMT pulseaudio[20779]: [alsa-sink] alsa-sink.c: Nos despertaron con POLLOUT -- sin embargo, una llamada a snd_pcm_avail() devolvió 0 u otro valor < min_avail. If I play sound using the same components changing configuration from 5.1 to Stereo output, audio works flawlessly. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/alsa-driver/+bug/1289811/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

