[IDT 92HD75B3X5] pactl stat failed to find default card - no sound and the sound settings will not load

[Terry Hasseman]

Binary package hint: pulseaudio

i uninstalled pulseaudio since it caused my pSX emulator to crash. Afterwards, I reinstalled and now I have no sound.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: pulseaudio 1:0.9.22~0.9.21+stable-queue-32-g8478-0ubuntu21.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-23.41-generic-pae 2.6.35.7
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-23-generic-pae i686
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.23.
Architecture: i386
ArecordDevices:
 **** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
 card 0: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 0: STAC92xx Analog [STAC92xx Analog]
   Subdevices: 1/1
   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
AudioDevicesInUse:
 USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
 /dev/snd/controlC0: terry 1557 F.... pulseaudio
Card0.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:0 'SB'/'HDA ATI SB at 0xf2400000 irq 16'
   Mixer name : 'IDT 92HD75B3X5'
   Components : 'HDA:111d7603,103c3638,00100202 HDA:11c11040,103c137e,00100200'
   Controls : 20
   Simple ctrls : 12
Card1.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:1 'HDMI'/'HDA ATI HDMI at 0xf2310000 irq 44'
   Mixer name : 'ATI RS690/780 HDMI'
   Components : 'HDA:1002791a,00791a00,00100000'
   Controls : 4
   Simple ctrls : 1
Card1.Amixer.values:
 Simple mixer control 'IEC958',0
   Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined penum
   Playback channels: Mono
   Mono: Playback [on]
Date: Sat Dec 11 17:21:17 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386 (20101007)
PactlStat:

PactlStatStderr:
 C o n n e c t i o n f a i l u r e : C o n n e c t i o n r e f u s e d
  p a _ c o n t e x t _ c o n n e c t ( ) f a i l e d : C o n n e c t i o n r e f u s e d
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SelectedCard: 0 SB HDA-Intel - HDA ATI SB
SourcePackage: pulseaudio
Symptom: audio
Title: [IDT 92HD75B3X5] pactl stat failed to find default card
dmi.bios.date: 10/15/2009
dmi.bios.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.bios.version: F.08
dmi.board.name: 3638
dmi.board.vendor: Quanta
dmi.board.version: 33.22
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: Quanta
dmi.chassis.version: N/A
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnHewlett-Packard:bvrF.08:bd10/15/2009:svnHewlett-Packard:pnHPPaviliondv7NotebookPC:pvr039C200002241220000020000:rvnQuanta:rn3638:rvr33.22:cvnQuanta:ct10:cvrN/A:
dmi.product.name: HP Pavilion dv7 Notebook PC
dmi.product.version: 039C200002241220000020000
dmi.sys.vendor: Hewlett-Packard