Noise in playback output with intrepid

[Omid Mottaghi]

After upgrading from Hardy to Intrepid, sound output plays with some small noises.
speakers are silent until I play something, then they play a noisy sound!

kernel:
2.6.26-2-generic

alsa packages:
# dpkg -l alsa*
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Cfg-files/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-=======================================-=======================================-==============================================================================================
un alsa <none> (no description available)
ii alsa-base 1.0.16-1.1ubuntu3 ALSA driver configuration files
un alsa-headers <none> (no description available)
pn alsa-oss <none> (no description available)
pn alsa-tools <none> (no description available)
pn alsa-tools-gui <none> (no description available)
ii alsa-utils 1.0.16-1ubuntu1 ALSA utilities
pn alsamixergui <none> (no description available)

pulseaudio packages:
# dpkg -l pulse*
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Cfg-files/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-=======================================-=======================================-==============================================================================================
ii pulseaudio 0.9.10-2ubuntu1 PulseAudio sound server
pn pulseaudio-dbg <none> (no description available)
ii pulseaudio-esound-compat 0.9.10-2ubuntu1 PulseAudio ESD compatibility layer
pn pulseaudio-esound-compat-dbg <none> (no description available)
ii pulseaudio-module-gconf 0.9.10-2ubuntu1 GConf module for PulseAudio sound server
pn pulseaudio-module-gconf-dbg <none> (no description available)
ii pulseaudio-module-hal 0.9.10-2ubuntu1 HAL device detection module for PulseAudio sound server
pn pulseaudio-module-hal-dbg <none> (no description available)
un pulseaudio-module-jack <none> (no description available)
ii pulseaudio-module-lirc 0.9.10-2ubuntu1 lirc module for PulseAudio sound server
pn pulseaudio-module-lirc-dbg <none> (no description available)
ii pulseaudio-module-x11 0.9.10-2ubuntu1 X11 module for PulseAudio sound server
pn pulseaudio-module-x11-dbg <none> (no description available)
ii pulseaudio-module-zeroconf 0.9.10-2ubuntu1 Zeroconf module for PulseAudio sound server
pn pulseaudio-module-zeroconf-dbg <none> (no description available)
ii pulseaudio-utils 0.9.10-2ubuntu1 Command line tools for the PulseAudio sound server
pn pulseaudio-utils-dbg <none> (no description available)

[Omid Mottaghi (omidmottaghi)]

I can play by avidemux! but nor totem, nor rythmbox.

[Saivann Carignan (oxmosys)]

I confirm this bug. Listening to music through rhythmbox and movies through VLC or totem result in a lot of noise over the normal playback. This bug only appeared in intrepid.

[nullack (nullack)]

Hmmm, are you sure your not actually getting sound through the pc speaker as well?

See my bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/+bug/243804