sound is constantly lost, requiring a reboot or suspend

[ill]

When watching movies, the sound is eventually and randomly lost between sound clips or movies, and the only way to get sound back is to suspend and wakeup or reboot the machine. No error messages show up. This is on 12.04 ubuntu.
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ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu6
Architecture: amd64
AudioDevicesInUse:
 USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
 /dev/snd/controlC0: ill 1703 F.... xfce4-volumed
                      ill 1729 F.... pulseaudio
 /dev/snd/controlC1: ill 1703 F.... xfce4-volumed
                      ill 1729 F.... pulseaudio
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-07-28 (93 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120425)
MarkForUpload: True
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: alsa-driver (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-17.28-generic 3.5.5
Tags: quantal
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-17-generic x86_64
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-10-12 (18 days ago)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo
dmi.bios.date: 02/04/2010
dmi.bios.vendor: Phoenix Technologies, LTD
dmi.bios.version: ASUS M2N-SLI DELUXE ACPI BIOS Revision 5001
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dmi.board.version: 1.XX
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[ill (illumilore)]

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[ill (illumilore)]

1. the specific steps or actions you took that caused you to encounter the problem, (i.e. which program you are using to view videos)

Anything that plays sound (totem, vlc, media player, etc)

2. the behavior you expected, and

For sound to not die

3. the behavior you actually encountered (in as much detail as possible).

Sound died.

[Raymond (superquad-vortex2)]

active profile: <output:iec958-stereo+input:iec958-stereo>

you have to send email to alsa devel mailing to ask alsa devepler to implement hda jack detection kcontrols

[Raymond (superquad-vortex2)]

btw does your m2n support digital input (SPDIF In) ?

Node 0x1c [Pin Complex] wcaps 0x40020b: Stereo Digital Amp-In
  Control: name="IEC958 Capture Volume", index=0, device=0
    ControlAmp: chs=3, dir=In, idx=0, ofs=0
  Amp-In caps: ofs=0x17, nsteps=0x1f, stepsize=0x05, mute=1
  Amp-In vals: [0x00 0x00]
  Pincap 0x00000020: IN
  Pin Default 0x41c5f1f0: [N/A] SPDIF In at Ext Rear
    Conn = Optical, Color = Other
    DefAssociation = 0xf, Sequence = 0x0
    Misc = NO_PRESENCE
  Pin-ctls: 0x20: IN

ARECORD

**** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 0: AD198x Analog [AD198x Analog]
  Subdevices: 3/3
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
  Subdevice #1: subdevice #1
  Subdevice #2: subdevice #2
card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 1: AD198x Digital [AD198x Digital]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

[Raymond (superquad-vortex2)]

post the pulseaudio verbose log for those hda codec which does not implement hda jack detect kcontrol

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

[ill (illumilore)]

"btw does your m2n support digital input (SPDIF In) ?"

No, but the same thing happens on other profiles that have no input; I must have accidentally selected one that has digital input while troubleshooting the problem.

"post the pulseaudio verbose log for those hda codec which does not implement hda jack detect kcontrol"

How do I turn hda jack detect kcontrol on or off?

[Raymond (superquad-vortex2)]

please post the pulseaudio vervose log to check why pulseaudio selec both iec958 input and output as ctive port

your m2n sli is hardcoded to use model 6stick-dig

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound.git;a=commit;h=a64c8cd6e22bbc6a101da5b827e720fff35a5ab9

[Raymond (superquad-vortex2)]

does it support the optional optical/coaxial add-on board ?

do you connected the small mono pc speaker to themotherboard ?

http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/AMD_AM2/M2NSLI/#specifications

Back Panel I/O Ports
1 x SPDIF Out
8-channel Audio ports

Internal I/O Connectors
1 x S/PDIF output connector
Front Panel Audio connector
CD audio in
System panel connector

[Raymond (superquad-vortex2)]

the alsa driver does not set up the power widget and vendor defined power down as the windows driver

Node 0x19 [Power Widget]
wcaps 0x500500: Mono
Power states: D0 D3 Power: setting=D0, actual=D0
Connection: 2 0x20 0x21

Node 0x23 [Vendor Defined Widget]
 wcaps 0xf00100: Mono
Connection: 18 0x11* 0x12 0x13 0x14 0x15 0x16 0x17 0x18 0x24 0x25 0x38 0x39 0x3a 0x3b 0x3c 0x3d 0x20 0x21

19 Mixer Power-Down Power widget Powers down the analog mixer and associated amps
1A Analog PCBEEP Pin complex External analog PCBEEP signal input
1B S/PDIF Out Pin complex S/PDIF output pin
1C S/PDIF In Pin complex S/PDIF input pin
1D S/PDIF Mixer Audio mixer Mixes the selected ADC with the digital stream to drive S/PDIF out
1E MONO_OUT Mixer Audio mixer Selects the source that drives the MONO_OUT signal
23 VREF Power-Down Vendor defined Powers down the internal and external VREF circuitry

[Raymond (superquad-vortex2)]

all adi codecs still does not support hda jack detection and you have to send email to the author of the patch

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound.git;a=commit;h=01a61e12b4602c82bde9797d0e153f3e53c95b04

[papukaija (papukaija)]

Please do not self-confirm bugs. Please see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Status for more information. Thanks in advance.

[Raymond (superquad-vortex2)]

try latest always driver which implement Jack dectection for ad198x

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Audio/UpgradingAlsa/DKMS

[Marcus Tomlinson (marcustomlinson)]

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.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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