Comment 4 for bug 315809

After yesterday's updates, PulseAudio Volume Meter shows bars going back and forth, but there's no sound out of the speakers. The hardware is HDA ATI SB = ALC888 Analog on a Compaq Presario

Linux version 2.6.28-4-generic (buildd@palmer) (gcc version 4.3.3 20081217 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 4.3.2-2ubuntu9) ) #9-Ubuntu SMP Tue Jan 6 19:34:01 UTC 2009
Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA)

Dual boot, switch back to the 2.6.28-4 before yesterday's updates, plays fine on same hardware.

I do see the date 2009-01-09 on some pulsaudio files so I presume there was/were changes?:

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2045 2009-01-09 01:14 /etc/init.d/pulseaudio
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4427 2009-01-09 01:21 default.pa

The workarounds in preceding posts didn't help.

Any clue how to hear the PulseAudio Volume Meter activity?

Thanks, Jerry