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pulseaudio package

Doesn't start on Thinkpad R51

Bug #84514 reported by Ilmari Vacklin on 2007-02-11

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #76788: pulseaudio-module-hal does not detect sound hardware. Edit Remove

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	pulseaudio (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: pulseaudio

The PulseAudio daemon doesn't start on IBM Thinkpad R51. Attaching hwinfo and lspci.

wolverian@pupu:~$ pulseaudio -v
main.c: WARNING: called SUID root, but not in group 'pulse-rt'.
module-hal-detect.c: Trying capability 0 (alsa)
module-hal-detect.c: Trying capability 1 (oss)
module-hal-detect.c: failed to detect any sound hardware.
module.c: Failed to load module "module-hal-detect" (argument: ""): initialization failed.
main.c: Module load failed.
main.c: failed to initialize daemon.
main.c: Daemon terminated.

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Ilmari Vacklin (wolverian) wrote on 2007-02-11:

output of hwinfo --sound Edit (1.1 KiB, text/plain)

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Ilmari Vacklin (wolverian) wrote on 2007-02-11:

output of lspci Edit (1.8 KiB, text/plain)

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meeuwisdlvw (meeuwis) wrote on 2007-02-11:

Thank you for your bug report.
What kernel version are you using?
What version of PulseAudio?
It might be the same as bug 76788.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/+bug/76788