Uncertain Auto-bug Submission - but need help with broken audio controls

[Marc Childress]

UNKNOWN why apport is submitting this bug, but probably because I disabled pulseaudio and enabled ALSA - I have a P3-800, and pulse is a resource hog. PLEASE SHOW ME HOW TO GET THE VOLUME CONTROL BACK IN THE NOTIFICATION AREA, AND CONTROL IT FROM MY MULTIMEDIA BUTTONS ON THE KEYBOARD (DELL INSPIRON 8000).

I followed these instructions to rid myself of pulseaudio-
http://n2.nabble.com/Re-Ubuntu-s-switch-to-pulseaudio-broke-accessibility-for-the-blind-td3886061.html

I'm using 9.10

Thanks for the help!

ProblemType: KernelOops
Annotation: Your system might become unstable now and might need to be restarted.
AplayDevices:
 **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
 card 0: PCI [ESS Maestro3 PCI], device 0: Maestro3 [Maestro3]
   Subdevices: 2/2
   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
   Subdevice #1: subdevice #1
Architecture: i386
ArecordDevices:
 **** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
 card 0: PCI [ESS Maestro3 PCI], device 0: Maestro3 [Maestro3]
   Subdevices: 1/1
   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
AudioDevicesInUse:
 USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
 /dev/snd/controlC0: marcchi 2287 F.... xfce4-mixer
 /dev/snd/seq: timidity 1529 F.... timidity
CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
Card0.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:0 'PCI'/'ESS Maestro3 PCI at 0xec00, irq 5'
   Mixer name : 'SigmaTel STAC9721,23'
   Components : 'AC97a:83847609'
   Controls : 31
   Simple ctrls : 21
Date: Mon Nov 2 21:46:43 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Failure: oops
HibernationDevice: RESUME=UUID=1e5e9c8e-eff0-4696-b893-cfa9797d3ae7
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
IwConfig:
 lo no wireless extensions.

 vboxnet0 no wireless extensions.

 eth4 no wireless extensions.
Lsusb:
 Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
 Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0c16:0001 Gyration, Inc.
MachineType: Dell Computer Corporation Inspiron 8000
Package: linux-image-2.6.31-14-generic 2.6.31-14.48
PccardctlStatus:
 Socket 0:
   no card
 Socket 1:
   5.0V 16-bit PC Card
   Subdevice 0 (function 0) bound to driver "3c574_cs"
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-14-generic root=UUID=a5cb822b-c25c-4e3c-8197-d08897cb75eb ro quiet splash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
RelatedPackageVersions:
 linux-backports-modules-2.6.31-14-generic N/A
 linux-firmware 1.24
RfKill:

SourcePackage: linux
Tags: kernel-oops
Title: WARNING: at /build/buildd/linux-2.6.31/net/sched/sch_generic.c:246 dev_watchdog+0x1f6/0x210()
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686
dmi.bios.date: 02/06/2002
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Computer Corporation
dmi.bios.version: A19
dmi.board.name: Inspiron 8000
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Computer Corporation
dmi.chassis.type: 8
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Computer Corporation
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellComputerCorporation:bvrA19:bd02/06/2002:svnDellComputerCorporation:pnInspiron8000:pvr:rvnDellComputerCorporation:rnInspiron8000:rvr:cvnDellComputerCorporation:ct8:cvr:
dmi.product.name: Inspiron 8000
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Computer Corporation

[Jeremy Foshee (jeremyfoshee)]

Hi Marc,

This bug was reported a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue? Can you try with the latest development release of Ubuntu? ISO CD images are available from http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/ .

If it remains an issue, could you run the following command from a Terminal (Applications->Accessories->Terminal). It will automatically gather and attach updated debug information to this report.

apport-collect -p linux 472157

Also, if you could test the latest upstream kernel available that would be great. It will allow additional upstream developers to examine the issue. Refer to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelMainlineBuilds . Once you've tested the upstream kernel, please remove the 'needs-upstream-testing' tag. This can be done by clicking on the yellow pencil icon next to the tag located at the bottom of the bug description and deleting the 'needs-upstream-testing' text. Please let us know your results.

Thanks in advance.

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[Marc Childress (marcuschildress)]

Hi Jeremy,
Thanks for the followup. I have to date not yet been able to get the
volume to be adjustable within the Gnome interface (using the control
next to the clock), but was successful in installing a mixer
application and controlling it (but still not by the multimedia
buttons). I would propose closing this activity- unless there is
demand from anyone else in the community.
Best Regards,
Marc

On Apr 22, 2010, at 3:29 PM, Jeremy Foshee
<email address hidden> wrote:

> Hi Marc,
>
> This bug was reported a while ago and there hasn't been any activity
> in it recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue? Can you
> try with the latest development release of Ubuntu? ISO CD images
> are available from http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/ .
>
> If it remains an issue, could you run the following command from a
> Terminal (Applications->Accessories->Terminal). It will
> automatically gather and attach updated debug information to this
> report.
>
> apport-collect -p linux 472157
>
> Also, if you could test the latest upstream kernel available that
> would be great. It will allow additional upstream developers to
> examine the issue. Refer to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelMainlineBuilds
> . Once you've tested the upstream kernel, please remove the 'needs-
> upstream-testing' tag. This can be done by clicking on the yellow
> pencil icon next to the tag located at the bottom of the bug
> description and deleting the 'needs-upstream-testing' text. Please
> let us know your results.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> [This is an automated message. Apologies if it has reached you
> inappropriately; please just reply to this message indicating so.]
>
>
> ** Tags added: kernel-sound
>
> ** Tags added: needs-kernel-logs
>
> ** Tags added: needs-upstream-testing
>
> ** Tags added: kj-triage
>
> ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Incomplete
>
> --
> Uncertain Auto-bug Submission - but need help with broken audio
> controls
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/472157
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>
> Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
> UNKNOWN why apport is submitting this bug, but probably because I
> disabled pulseaudio and enabled ALSA - I have a P3-800, and pulse is
> a resource hog. PLEASE SHOW ME HOW TO GET THE VOLUME CONTROL BACK
> IN THE NOTIFICATION AREA, AND CONTROL IT FROM MY MULTIMEDIA BUTTONS
> ON THE KEYBOARD (DELL INSPIRON 8000).
>
> I followed these instructions to rid myself of pulseaudio-
> http://n2.nabble.com/Re-Ubuntu-s-switch-to-pulseaudio-broke-accessibility-for-the-blind-td3886061.html
>
> I'm using 9.10
>
> Thanks for the help!
>
> ProblemType: KernelOops
> Annotation: Your system might become unstable now and might need to
> be restarted.
> AplayDevices:
> **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
> card 0: PCI [ESS Maestro3 PCI], device 0: Maestro3 [Maestro3]
> Subdevices: 2/2
> Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
> Subdevice #1: subdevice #1
> Architecture: i386
> ArecordDevices:
> **** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
> card 0: PCI [ESS Maestro3 PCI...