This problem appeared out of nowhere on my laptop. I recently installed Webcamstudio and xawtv. I also recently plugged in a couple of different USB webcams: Logitech and Kensinton.
Perhaps the USB webcams triggered a problem, because I was using my third USB jack and "usb3" shares an IRQ with HDA Intel, my sound chip:
Comment #46 worked for me too. Thanks Locque.
This problem appeared out of nowhere on my laptop. I recently installed Webcamstudio and xawtv. I also recently plugged in a couple of different USB webcams: Logitech and Kensinton.
Perhaps the USB webcams triggered a problem, because I was using my third USB jack and "usb3" shares an IRQ with HDA Intel, my sound chip:
dereks@ dereks- laptop: ~$ cat /proc/interrupts | grep Intel
21: 72781 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi uhci_hcd:usb3, HDA Intel
Maybe one of the udev scripts triggered a change for the default sound?