[CA0106 - CA0106] no sound from anything ubuntu 10.10

[james loria]

Ubuntu 10.10 SB Audigy SE Unable to hear anything from speakers and yes they are turned on. The system says its playing but nothing is coming out not even during the speaker tests. My sound works in XP on the same computer. Ubuntu does recognize my card and it seems the module is loaded.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: alsa-base 1.0.23+dfsg-1ubuntu4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.35-generic 2.6.35.4
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.23.
Architecture: amd64
AudioDevicesInUse:
 USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
 /dev/snd/controlC0: james 1676 F.... pulseaudio
 /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p: james 1676 F...m pulseaudio
 /dev/snd/pcmC0D1p: james 1676 F...m pulseaudio
 /dev/snd/pcmC0D2p: james 1676 F...m pulseaudio
Card0.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:0 'CA0106'/'Audigy SE [SB0570] at 0x8c00 irq 17'
   Mixer name : 'CA0106'
   Components : ''
   Controls : 35
   Simple ctrls : 18
Date: Sun Oct 31 20:01:53 2010
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SelectedCard: 0 CA0106 CA0106 - CA0106
SourcePackage: alsa-driver
Symptom: audio
Title: [CA0106 - CA0106] ALSA test tone not correctly played back
dmi.bios.date: 09/10/2008
dmi.bios.vendor: Phoenix Technologies, LTD
dmi.bios.version: 6.00 PG
dmi.board.name: 132-CK-NF79
dmi.board.vendor: EVGA
dmi.board.version: 2
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: EVGA
dmi.chassis.version: 132-CK-NF79
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnPhoenixTechnologies,LTD:bvr6.00PG:bd09/10/2008:svnEVGA:pn132-CK-NF79:pvr2:rvnEVGA:rn132-CK-NF79:rvr2:cvnEVGA:ct3:cvr132-CK-NF79:
dmi.product.name: 132-CK-NF79
dmi.product.version: 2
dmi.sys.vendor: EVGA

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

What is the output from `pactl stat'?

[james loria (bizkitboy-27)]

james@james-desktop:~$ pactl stat
Currently in use: 70 blocks containing 476.6 KiB bytes total.
Allocated during whole lifetime: 134537 blocks containing 1.1 GiB bytes total.
Sample cache size: 62.6 KiB
User name: james
Host Name: james-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_03_09.0.analog-surround-41
Default Source: alsa_output.pci-0000_03_09.0.analog-surround-41.monitor
Cookie: 44380885

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

What is the output from `apt-cache policy pulseaudio'? If you aren't using the newest package version in maverick-updates, please do so.

Is the symptom reproducible when using analog stereo instead of surround?

[james loria (bizkitboy-27)]

james@james-desktop:~$ apt-cache policy pulseaudio
pulseaudio:
  Installed: 1:0.9.22~0.9.21+stable-queue-32-g8478-0ubuntu21.1
  Candidate: 1:0.9.22~0.9.21+stable-queue-32-g8478-0ubuntu21.1
  Version table:
 *** 1:0.9.22~0.9.21+stable-queue-32-g8478-0ubuntu21.1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick-updates/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     1:0.9.22~0.9.21+stable-queue-32-g8478-0ubuntu21 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/main amd64 Packages

Yes i put it on analog stereo and still nothing i tried all the others as well.

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

Please attach a verbose log; see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PulseAudio/Log

[james loria (bizkitboy-27)]

verbose is an understatement

[Grega Fajdiga (gregor-fajdiga-guest)]

Just a me too here.

Using Ubuntu desktop 32-bit, latest updates installed.

Logs attached

[Grega Fajdiga (gregor-fajdiga-guest)]

Trying to attach the rest of the files via e-mail. Hope it works :-)

[james loria (bizkitboy-27)]

I have found a interim solution. I entered 'sudo alsa-utils restart' and that brings my audio back. But I have to repeat that code every new session. Is there a way to find out what is being changed when I restart ALSA so I can fix this permanently?

[Grega Fajdiga (gregor-fajdiga-guest)]

Na 03. 11. 2010 08:41, james loria je pisal:
> I have found a interim solution. I entered 'sudo alsa-utils restart'
> and that brings my audio back. But I have to repeat that code every new
> session. Is there a way to find out what is being changed when I
> restart ALSA so I can fix this permanently?
>

Good for you :-) Unfortunately that doesn't work for me. Does
that mean I have to file a separate bug?
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[james loria (bizkitboy-27)]

You can file a new one if you want, but I don't consider this fixed cause its not a permanent solution, I still don't know what is causing the problem. If trying what I did didn't help you, that suggests it's most likely two different bugs we're playing with here. That's just my guess...

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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[Bapf (bugs-ubuntu-bapf)]

Same problem here ...