[VIA VT1708B 8-Ch] PA test tone failed (alsa tone succeeded)

[bahaa2008]

Binary package hint: pulseaudio

After Upgrading to Ubuntu 10.10 i can't hear any sound,

I reinstalled all ALSA and pulseaudio related packages and restart my pc

no i hear a sound when i talk on the microphone,

but i cann't hear any sound from any applications (rythmbox, mplayer, firefox alsa plugin)

Please help my ASAP

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: pulseaudio 1:0.9.22~0.9.21+stable-queue-32-g8478-0ubuntu21
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.33-generic 2.6.35.4
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.23.
Architecture: i386
ArecordDevices:
 **** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
 card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 0: VT1708B Analog [VT1708B Analog]
   Subdevices: 2/2
   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
   Subdevice #1: subdevice #1
AudioDevicesInUse:
 USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
 /dev/snd/controlC0: bahaa 2553 F.... pulseaudio
Card0.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:0 'NVidia'/'HDA NVidia at 0xfebf8000 irq 23'
   Mixer name : 'VIA VT1708B 8-Ch'
   Components : 'HDA:1106e721,10192965,00100100'
   Controls : 28
   Simple ctrls : 16
Date: Mon Oct 11 21:34:01 2010
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SelectedCard: 0 NVidia HDA-Intel - HDA NVidia
SourcePackage: pulseaudio
Symptom: audio
Title: [VIA VT1708B 8-Ch] PA test tone failed (alsa tone succeeded)
dmi.bios.date: 04/03/2008
dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
dmi.bios.version: 080015
dmi.board.asset.tag: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.board.name: GF7050VT-M5
dmi.board.vendor: ECS
dmi.board.version: 1.0
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: ECS
dmi.chassis.version: 1.0
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvr080015:bd04/03/2008:svnECS:pnGF7050VT-M5:pvr1.0:rvnECS:rnGF7050VT-M5:rvr1.0:cvnECS:ct3:cvr1.0:
dmi.product.name: GF7050VT-M5
dmi.product.version: 1.0
dmi.sys.vendor: ECS

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

Which pulse sink is being used by default? (`pactl stat')

[bahaa2008 (bahaa2008)]

This is the output for (`pactl stat')

Currently in use: 1 blocks containing 64.0 KiB bytes total.
Allocated during whole lifetime: 244541 blocks containing 732.0 MiB bytes total.
Sample cache size: 0 B
User name: bahaa
Host Name: bahaa-desktop
Server Name: pulseaudio
Server Version: 0.9.21-63-gd3efa-dirty
Default Sample Specification: s16le 2ch 44100Hz
Default Channel Map: front-left,front-right
Default Sink: alsa_output.pci-0000_00_09.0.iec958-stereo
Default Source: alsa_input.pci-0000_00_09.0.analog-stereo
Cookie: 61c1e037

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

Please see:

> Default Sink: alsa_output.pci-0000_00_09.0.iec958-stereo

Do you intend to use the spdif output or "normal" analog
speaker/headphones? It's currently set for the former.

[Bahaa Salama (engbahaa2002)]

I'm Using "normal headphones"

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

Then you need to change the output to reflect your intended output. See the
sound preferences.

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

(Closing per reporter's comment regarding intended analog stereo output)