[Realtek ALC892] pactl stat failed to find default card

[Hassan Williamson]

I have no sound at all.

Doing the following makes sound work... however I have no control over the sound volumes per applications (except the overall sound using alsamixer - which is a pain):

killall pulseaudio
pulseaudio --kill
alsa force-reload

After doing those, sound works! So clearly there isn't any issues with alsa, problem seems to exist in pulseaudio somehow... yet it was working perfectly fine a few months ago. I recently downgraded to "1:0.9.22~0.9.21+stable-queue-32-g8478-0ubuntu21" because I thought "1:0.9.22~0.9.21+stable-queue-32-g8478-0ubuntu21.1" was what caused the issues... but still no joy. Any ideas?

Is there a way to be able to revert settings somehow (without having to reinstall the whole O/S)?

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: pulseaudio 1:0.9.22~0.9.21+stable-queue-32-g8478-0ubuntu21
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-31.63-generic 2.6.35.13
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-31-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.23.
Architecture: amd64
AudioDevicesInUse: Error: command ['fuser', '-v', '/dev/snd/by-id', '/dev/snd/controlC1', '/dev/snd/pcmC1D0c', '/dev/snd/by-path', '/dev/snd/controlC0', '/dev/snd/hwC0D0', '/dev/snd/pcmC0D0c', '/dev/snd/pcmC0D0p', '/dev/snd/pcmC0D1p', '/dev/snd/seq', '/dev/snd/timer'] failed with exit code 1:
Card0.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:0 'Intel'/'HDA Intel at 0xf7df8000 irq 71'
   Mixer name : 'Realtek ALC892'
   Components : 'HDA:10ec0892,10438436,00100302'
   Controls : 33
   Simple ctrls : 19
Card1.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:1 'CinemaTM'/'Microsoft Microsoft® LifeCam Cinema(TM) at usb-0000:00:1d.7-3, high speed'
   Mixer name : 'USB Mixer'
   Components : 'USB045e:075d'
   Controls : 2
   Simple ctrls : 1
Card1.Amixer.values:
 Simple mixer control 'Mic',0
   Capabilities: cvolume cvolume-joined cswitch cswitch-joined penum
   Capture channels: Mono
   Limits: Capture 0 - 56
   Mono: Capture 56 [100%] [36.00dB] [on]
Date: Wed Dec 21 10:50:15 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (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
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_GB.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SelectedCard: 0 Intel HDA-Intel - HDA Intel
SourcePackage: pulseaudio
Symptom: audio
Title: [Realtek ALC892] pactl stat failed to find default card
dmi.bios.date: 12/21/2010
dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
dmi.bios.version: 0802
dmi.board.asset.tag: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.board.name: SABERTOOTH X58
dmi.board.vendor: ASUSTeK Computer INC.
dmi.board.version: Rev 1.xx
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: Asset-1234567890
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: Chassis Manufacture
dmi.chassis.version: Chassis Version
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvr0802:bd12/21/2010:svnSystemmanufacturer:pnSystemProductName:pvrSystemVersion:rvnASUSTeKComputerINC.:rnSABERTOOTHX58:rvrRev1.xx:cvnChassisManufacture:ct3:cvrChassisVersion:
dmi.product.name: System Product Name
dmi.product.version: System Version
dmi.sys.vendor: System manufacturer

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

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