Today, i have the same error.
I'm using Ubuntu 9.10
After updating the Kernel to 2.6.31-16-generic i don't have sound with
my ext. usb speakers.
This is the output from /var/log/messages
mi...@micky-li:~$ tail -f /var/log/messages
Dec 11 17:24:48 micky-li kernel: [ 14.868562] kjournald2 starting: pid 1371,
dev sda8:8, commit interval 5 seconds
Dec 11 17:24:48 micky-li kernel: [ 14.868832] EXT4-fs (sda8): internal
journal on sda8:8
Dec 11 17:24:48 micky-li kernel: [ 14.868836] EXT4-fs (sda8): delayed
allocation enabled
Dec 11 17:24:48 micky-li kernel: [ 14.868840] EXT4-fs: file extents enabled
Dec 11 17:24:48 micky-li kernel: [ 14.877316] EXT4-fs: mballoc enabled
Dec 11 17:24:48 micky-li kernel: [ 14.877334] EXT4-fs (sda8): mounted
filesystem with ordered data mode
Dec 11 17:24:49 micky-li kernel: [ 16.271360] ppdev: user-space parallel port
driver
Dec 11 17:24:55 micky-li pulseaudio[1750]: ratelimit.c: 3 events suppressed
Dec 11 17:25:08 micky-li kernel: [ 34.820982] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlan0:
link becomes ready
Dec 11 17:25:50 micky-li kernel: [ 77.500045] Clocksource tsc unstable (delta
= -277599549 ns)
Dec 11 17:26:06 micky-li kernel: [ 93.236053] usb 2-2: new full speed USB
device using ohci_hcd and address 2
Dec 11 17:26:06 micky-li kernel: [ 93.410563] usb 2-2: configuration #1
chosen from 1 choice
Dec 11 17:26:06 micky-li kernel: [ 93.481446] usbcore: registered new
interface driver snd-usb-audio
Dec 11 17:26:06 micky-li pulseaudio[1843]: alsa-mixer.c: Your kernel driver is
broken: it reports a volume range from -37,00 dB to -37,00 dB which makes no
sense.
The internal speakers give sound.
mi...@micky-li:~$ hwinfo --sound
21: PCI 14.2: 0403 Audio device
[Created at pci.318]
UDI: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_1002_4383
Unique ID: 5Dex.X2j+5Zo+_f4
SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.2
SysFS BusID: 0000:00:14.2
Hardware Class: sound
Model: "ATI SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA)"
Vendor: pci 0x1002 "ATI Technologies Inc"
Device: pci 0x4383 "SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA)"
SubVendor: pci 0x1734 "Fujitsu Siemens Computers"
SubDevice: pci 0x110a
Driver: "HDA Intel"
Driver Modules: "snd_hda_intel"
Memory Range: 0xc0000000-0xc0003fff (rw,non-prefetchable)
IRQ: 16 (177746 events)
Module Alias: "pci:v00001002d00004383sv00001734sd0000110Abc04sc03i00"
Driver Info #0:
Driver Status: snd_hda_intel is active
Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe snd_hda_intel"
Config Status: cfg=new, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown
mi...@micky-li:~$ lsusb
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 045e:00a4 Microsoft Corp.
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 0d8c:0103 C-Media Electronics, Inc. Turtle Beach Audio
Advantage Micro <----- this are the ext.Speakers
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
greetings toxicon
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alsa-mixer.c: Your kernel driver is broken: it reports a volume range from
18.00 dB to 18.00 dB which makes no sense
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/410887
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