Subwoofer drops out when playback ends

Bug #1445861 reported by UltyX
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This bug affects 1 person
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
alsa-driver (Ubuntu)
Expired
Medium
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Bug Description

When audio is played in a 5.1 configuration then there is no sound coming from the Subwoofer channel by default.
Functionality of the Subwoofer channel can be temporarily restored by switching the audio profile from 5.1 to stereo and back to 5.1 again.

Changing the line in /etc/pulse/daemon.conf
from
; enable-lfe-remixing = no
to
enable-lfe-remixing = yes

Fixes this issue permanently with my current hardware configuration.

ubuntu-bug wrongly identified the Nvidia HDMI port as the symptomatic card. The actual playback device is the build in Intel HDA ALC1150 audio chipset.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.10
Package: alsa-base 1.0.25+dfsg-0ubuntu4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.16.0-34.47-generic 3.16.7-ckt8
Uname: Linux 3.16.0-34-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.14.7-0ubuntu8.4
Architecture: amd64
AudioDevicesInUse:
 USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
 /dev/snd/controlC2: ulty 2968 F.... pulseaudio
 /dev/snd/controlC1: ulty 2968 F.... pulseaudio
 /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p: ulty 2968 F...m pulseaudio
 /dev/snd/controlC0: ulty 2968 F.... pulseaudio
CurrentDesktop: KDE
Date: Sun Apr 19 06:48:18 2015
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-10-18 (182 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 14.04.1 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140722.2)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: alsa-driver
Symptom: audio
Symptom_AlsaPlaybackTest: ALSA playback test through plughw:NVidia successful
Symptom_Card: GK104 HDMI Audio Controller - HDA NVidia
Symptom_Jack: Digital Out, HDMI
Symptom_PulsePlaybackTest: PulseAudio playback test successful
Symptom_Type: Only some of outputs are working
Title: [All Series, Nvidia GPU 40 HDMI/DP, Digital Out, HDMI] Playback problem
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to utopic on 2014-10-25 (175 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 02/06/2015
dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
dmi.bios.version: 1401
dmi.board.asset.tag: To be filled by O.E.M.
dmi.board.name: X99-A
dmi.board.vendor: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC.
dmi.board.version: Rev 1.xx
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.chassis.version: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvr1401:bd02/06/2015:svnASUS:pnAllSeries:pvrSystemVersion:rvnASUSTeKCOMPUTERINC.:rnX99-A:rvrRev1.xx:cvnToBeFilledByO.E.M.:ct3:cvrToBeFilledByO.E.M.:
dmi.product.name: All Series
dmi.product.version: System Version
dmi.sys.vendor: ASUS

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UltyX (ultyx1) wrote :
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Raymond (superquad-vortex2) wrote :

Default sample spec: s16le 2ch 44100Hz
Default channel map: front-left,front-right
Default sink name: alsa_output.pci-0000_01_00.1.hdmi-stereo
Default source name: alsa_output.pci-0000_01_00.1.hdmi-stereo.monitor

 active profile: <output:hdmi-stereo>
 sinks:
  alsa_output.pci-0000_01_00.1.hdmi-stereo/#0: GK104 HDMI Audio Controller Digital Stereo (HDMI)
 sources:
  alsa_output.pci-0000_01_00.1.hdmi-stereo.monitor/#0: Monitor of GK104 HDMI Audio Controller Digital Stereo (HDMI)
 ports:
  hdmi-output-0: HDMI / DisplayPort (priority 5900, latency offset 0 usec, available: no)
   properties:
    device.icon_name = "video-display"
  hdmi-output-1: HDMI / DisplayPort 2 (priority 5800, latency offset 0 usec, available: no)
   properties:
    device.icon_name = "video-display"
  hdmi-output-2: HDMI / DisplayPort 3 (priority 5700, latency offset 0 usec, available: no)
   properties:
    device.icon_name = "video-display"
  hdmi-output-3: HDMI / DisplayPort 4 (priority 5600, latency offset 0 usec, available: no)
   properties:
    device.icon_name = "video-display"

your hdmi seem not detected

xrandr --verbose

Changed in alsa-driver (Ubuntu):
status: New → Incomplete
penalvch (penalvch)
tags: added: bios-outdated-1702
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UltyX (ultyx1) wrote :
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xrandr --verbose
Screen 0: minimum 8 x 8, current 3600 x 1080, maximum 16384 x 16384
DVI-I-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
        Identifier: 0x27e
        Timestamp: 22077747
        Subpixel: unknown
        Clones:
        CRTCs: 0 1 2 3
        Transform: 1.000000 0.000000 0.000000
                    0.000000 1.000000 0.000000
                    0.000000 0.000000 1.000000
                   filter:
        BorderDimensions: 4
                supported: 4
        Border: 0 0 0 0
                range: (0, 65535)
        SignalFormat: VGA
                supported: VGA
        ConnectorType: DVI-I
        ConnectorNumber: 0
        _ConnectorLocation: 0
DVI-I-1 connected primary 1920x1080+1680+0 (0x282) normal (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 531mm x 298mm
        Identifier: 0x27f
        Timestamp: 22077747
        Subpixel: unknown
        Gamma: 1.0:1.0:1.0
        Brightness: 1.0
        Clones:
        CRTC: 0
        CRTCs: 0 1 2 3
        Transform: 1.000000 0.000000 0.000000
                    0.000000 1.000000 0.000000
                    0.000000 0.000000 1.000000
                   filter:
        EDID:
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                4500132a2100001e000000ff004c4143
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                0042656e5120584c32343131540a012a
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        BorderDimensions: 4
                supported: 4
        Border: 0 0 0 0
                range: (0, 65535)
        SignalFormat: TMDS
                supported: TMDS
        ConnectorType: DVI-I
        ConnectorNumber: 0
        _ConnectorLocation: 0
  1920x1080 (0x280) 148.5MHz +HSync +VSync +preferred
        h: width 1920 start 2008 end 2052 total 2200 skew 0 clock 67.5KHz
        v: height 1080 start 1084 end 1089 total 1125 clock 60.0Hz
  1920x1080 (0x281) 317.5MHz +HSync +VSync
        h: width 1920 start 1944 end 1976 total 2008 skew 0 clock 158.1KHz
        v: height 1080 start 10...

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Raymond (superquad-vortex2) wrote :

seem your BENQ display are connected DVI-I-1 connected primary

not sure why default sink change to non available HDMI when you have both USB audio and onboard analog device available

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PulseAudio/Log

did you customise default.pa to select any specified sink ?

control.37 {
  iface CARD
  name 'Line Out Front Jack'
  value true
  comment {
   access read
   type BOOLEAN
   count 1
  }
 }
 control.38 {
  iface CARD
  name 'Line Out Surround Jack'
  value true
  comment {
   access read
   type BOOLEAN
   count 1
  }
 }
 control.39 {
  iface CARD
  name 'Line Out CLFE Jack'
  value true
  comment {
   access read
   type BOOLEAN
   count 1
  }
 }

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UltyX (ultyx1) wrote :

> did you customise default.pa to select any specified sink ?
Not to my knowledge. I only used the default kde device preferences tool to pick my sound card and set it to 5.1 and mark it as most preferred. And I used alsamixer to unmute/set volume on the different channels.

> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PulseAudio/Log
I set enable-lfe-remixing = yes back to 'no' and then went through the process of reproducing the subwoofer sound drops out bug on my system:
1. Ran the commands:
echo autospawn = no >> ~/.config/pulse/client.conf #use ~/.pulse/client.conf on Ubuntu <= 12.10
killall pulseaudio
LANG=C pulseaudio -vvvv --log-time=1 > ~/pulseverbose.log 2>&1

2. Started Clementine to play some bass heavy audio: Result no subwoofer output
3. Went into device preferences and set my buildin card to stereo output and after about a sec. back to 5.1: Result subwoofer output worked for the still playing song.
4. After playback of the song was ended I tried playing it again: Result no subwoofer output
5. ^c

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Raymond (superquad-vortex2) wrote :
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  51.446| 2.302) D: [pulseaudio] module-suspend-on-idle.c: Sink alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo becomes idle, timeout in 5 seconds.
( 51.446| 0.000) D: [alsa-sink-ALC1150 Analog] sink-input.c: Have to rewind 15840 bytes on render memblockq.
( 51.446| 0.000) D: [alsa-sink-ALC1150 Analog] sink-input.c: Have to rewind 31680 bytes on implementor.
( 51.446| 0.000) D: [alsa-sink-ALC1150 Analog] alsa-sink.c: hwbuf_unused=0
( 51.446| 0.000) D: [alsa-sink-ALC1150 Analog] alsa-sink.c: setting avail_min=15502
( 51.446| 0.000) D: [alsa-sink-ALC1150 Analog] sink.c: Requesting rewind due to started move
( 51.446| 0.000) D: [alsa-sink-ALC1150 Analog] alsa-sink.c: Requested volume: 0: 55% 1: 55%
( 51.446| 0.000) D: [alsa-sink-ALC1150 Analog] alsa-sink.c: in dB: 0: -15,75 dB 1: -15,75 dB
( 51.446| 0.000) D: [alsa-sink-ALC1150 Analog] alsa-sink.c: Got hardware volume: 0: 55% 1: 55%
( 51.446| 0.000) D: [alsa-sink-ALC1150 Analog] alsa-sink.c: in dB: 0: -15,60 dB 1: -15,60 dB
( 51.446| 0.000) D: [alsa-sink-ALC1150 Analog] alsa-sink.c: Calculated software volume: 0: 99% 1: 99% (accurate-enough=yes)
( 51.446| 0.000) D: [alsa-sink-ALC1150 Analog] alsa-sink.c: in dB: 0: -0,15 dB 1: -0,15 dB
( 51.446| 0.000) D: [alsa-sink-ALC1150 Analog] sink.c: Volume not changing
( 51.446| 0.000) D: [alsa-sink-ALC1150 Analog] alsa-sink.c: Requested to rewind 65536 bytes.
( 51.446| 0.000) D: [alsa-sink-ALC1150 Analog] alsa-sink.c: Limited to 15428 bytes.
( 51.446| 0.000) D: [alsa-sink-ALC1150 Analog] alsa-sink.c: before: 3857
( 51.446| 0.000) D: [alsa-sink-ALC1150 Analog] alsa-sink.c: after: 3857
( 51.446| 0.000) D: [alsa-sink-ALC1150 Analog] alsa-sink.c: Rewound 15428 bytes.
( 51.446| 0.000) D: [alsa-sink-ALC1150 Analog] sink.c: Processing rewind...
( 51.446| 0.000) D: [alsa-sink-ALC1150 Analog] sink.c: latency = 1937
( 51.446| 0.000) D: [alsa-sink-ALC1150 Analog] source.c: Processing rewind...
( 51.446| 0.000) D: [pulseaudio] module-suspend-on-idle.c: Sink alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo becomes idle, timeout in 5 seconds.
( 51.446| 0.000) D: [pulseaudio] module-rescue-streams.c: No sink inputs to move away.
( 51.446| 0.000) D: [pulseaudio] module-rescue-streams.c: No source outputs to move away.
( 51.446| 0.000) D: [pulseaudio] core-subscribe.c: Dropped redundant event due to remove event.
( 51.446| 0.000) D: [alsa-sink-ALC1150 Analog] alsa-sink.c: Thread shutting down
( 51.447| 0.000) I: [pulseaudio] sink.c: Freeing sink 3 "alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo"
( 51.447| 0.000) I: [pulseaudio] source.c: Freeing source 4 "alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo.monitor"
( 51.447| 0.000) D: [pulseaudio] module-rescue-streams.c: No source outputs to move away.
( 51.447| 0.000) D: [alsa-source-ALC1150 Analog] alsa-source.c: Thread shutting down
( 51.447| 0.000) I: [pulseaudio] source.c: Freeing source 5 "alsa_input.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo"
( 51.448| 0.001) D: [pulseaudio] reserve-wrap.c: Successfully acquired reservation lock on device 'Audio0'
( 51.449| 0.000) D: [pulseaudio] reserve-wrap.c: Succes...

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penalvch (penalvch)
Changed in alsa-driver (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: Incomplete → New
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Raymond (superquad-vortex2) wrote :

as you are not using 48000Hz 6 channels

it depend on your HDA controller don't has 128 bytes alignment in period bytes restriction

( 2.009| 0.000) I: [pulseaudio] sink.c: device.vendor.id = "8086"
( 2.009| 0.000) I: [pulseaudio] sink.c: device.vendor.name = "Intel Corporation"
( 2.009| 0.000) I: [pulseaudio] sink.c: device.product.id = "8d20"
( 2.009| 0.000) I: [pulseaudio] sink.c: device.product.name = "Wellsburg HD Audio Controller"
( 2.009| 0.000) I: [pulseaudio] sink.c: device.form_factor = "internal"
( 2.009| 0.000) I: [pulseaudio] sink.c: device.string = "surround51:0"
( 2.009| 0.000) I: [pulseaudio] sink.c: device.buffering.buffer_size = "65520"
( 2.009| 0.000) I: [pulseaudio] sink.c: device.buffering.fragment_size = "32760"
( 2.009| 0.000) I: [pulseaudio] sink.c: device.access_mode = "mmap+timer"
( 2.009| 0.000) I: [pulseaudio] sink.c: device.profile.name = "analog-surround-51"
( 2.009| 0.000) I: [pulseaudio] sink.c: device.profile.description = "Analog Surround 5.1"

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Raymond (superquad-vortex2) wrote :
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Raymond (superquad-vortex2) wrote :
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Raymond (superquad-vortex2) wrote :

 51.449| 0.000) D: [pulseaudio] alsa-util.c: Maximum hw buffer size is 123 ms
 ( 51.449| 0.000) I: [pulseaudio] alsa-util.c: snd_pcm_hw_params_set_buffer_size_near() failed: Invalid argument
 ( 51.449| 0.000) I: [pulseaudio] alsa-util.c: snd_pcm_hw_params_set_period_size_near() failed: Invalid argument
 ( 51.449| 0.000) I: [pulseaudio] alsa-util.c: snd_pcm_hw_params_set_buffer_size_near() failed: Invalid argument

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/pulseaudio/pulseaudio/commit/src/modules/alsa/alsa-util.c?id=3c73e2130fd65e147c487b0b84c1a8b6a8afa04c

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UltyX (ultyx1) wrote :

> do you mean this patch still not fix your problem ?
I'm not a developer, so all I can say to the patch is that the description seems to fit. If this patch is present in the pulseaudio package which shipped with ubuntu 14.10 then this patch did not fix the problem.

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Marcus Tomlinson (marcustomlinson) wrote :

This release of Ubuntu is no longer receiving maintenance updates. If this is still an issue on a maintained version of Ubuntu please let us know.

Changed in alsa-driver (Ubuntu):
status: New → Incomplete
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

[Expired for alsa-driver (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

Changed in alsa-driver (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Expired
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