No sound following upgrade to 9.0.4 here, too. PulseAudio Volume Control shows system thinks it's playing sound. $ lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Memory Controller Hub (rev 07) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset PCI Express Graphics Port (rev 07) 00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 03) 00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 03) 00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 03) 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03) 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 03) 00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 03) 00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 6 (rev 03) 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 03) 00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 03) 00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 03) 00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #6 (rev 03) 00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 03) 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 93) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation ICH9M LPC Interface Controller (rev 03) 00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation ICH9M/M-E SATA AHCI Controller (rev 03) 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 03) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce 9300M GS (rev a1) 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 02) 03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 5100 AGN [Shiloh] Network Connection $ pkill pulseaudio; sleep 2; pulseaudio -vv I: caps.c: Limited capabilities successfully to CAP_SYS_NICE. I: caps.c: Dropping root privileges. I: caps.c: Limited capabilities successfully to CAP_SYS_NICE. D: main.c: Started as real root: no, suid root: yes I: main.c: We're in the group 'pulse-rt', allowing high-priority scheduling. I: main.c: setrlimit(RLIMIT_NICE, (31, 31)) failed: Operation not permitted I: main.c: setrlimit(RLIMIT_RTPRIO, (9, 9)) failed: Operation not permitted I: core-util.c: Successfully gained nice level -11. D: main.c: Can realtime: yes, can high-priority: yes I: main.c: Giving up CAP_NICE D: main.c: Can realtime: no, can high-priority: no I: main.c: This is PulseAudio 0.9.14 D: main.c: Compilation host: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu D: main.c: Compilation CFLAGS: -g -O2 -g -Wall -O3 -Wall -W -Wextra -pedantic -pipe -Wno-long-long -Wvla -Wno-overlength-strings -Wconversion -Wundef -Wformat -Wlogical-op -Wpacked -Wformat-security -Wmissing-include-dirs -Wformat-nonliteral -Wold-style-definition -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wfloat-equal -Wmissing-declarations -Wmissing-prototypes -Wstrict-prototypes -Wredundant-decls -Wmissing-noreturn -Wshadow -Wendif-labels -Wpointer-arith -Wcast-align -Wwrite-strings -Wno-unused-parameter -ffast-math D: main.c: Running on host: Linux x86_64 2.6.28-11-generic #42-Ubuntu SMP Fri Apr 17 01:58:03 UTC 2009 I: main.c: Page size is 4096 bytes D: main.c: Compiled with Valgrind support: no D: main.c: Running in valgrind mode: no D: main.c: Optimized build: yes I: main.c: Machine ID is 0bd75fe0644b391352388d94495cbf9a. I: main.c: Using runtime directory /home/victoria/.pulse/0bd75fe0644b391352388d94495cbf9a:runtime. I: main.c: Using state directory /home/victoria/.pulse. I: main.c: Running in system mode: no I: main.c: Fresh high-resolution timers available! Bon appetit! D: memblock.c: Using shared memory pool with 1024 slots of size 64.0 KiB each, total size is 64.0 MiB, maximum usable slot size is 65472 D: cli-command.c: Checking for existance of '/usr/lib/pulse-0.9/modules/module-gconf.so': success I: module.c: Loaded "module-gconf" (index: #0; argument: ""). I: module.c: Loaded "module-suspend-on-idle" (index: #1; argument: ""). I: module-device-restore.c: Sucessfully opened database file '/home/victoria/.pulse/0bd75fe0644b391352388d94495cbf9a:device-volumes.x86_64-pc-linux-gnu.gdbm'. I: module.c: Loaded "module-device-restore" (index: #2; argument: ""). I: module-stream-restore.c: Sucessfully opened database file '/home/victoria/.pulse/0bd75fe0644b391352388d94495cbf9a:stream-volumes.x86_64-pc-linux-gnu.gdbm'. I: module.c: Loaded "module-stream-restore" (index: #3; argument: ""). D: cli-command.c: Checking for existance of '/usr/lib/pulse-0.9/modules/module-hal-detect.so': success I: module-hal-detect.c: Trying capability alsa D: module-hal-detect.c: Not loaded device /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer_alsa_timer D: module-hal-detect.c: Loading module-alsa-source with arguments 'device_id=0 source_name=alsa_input.pci_8086_293e_sound_card_0_alsa_capture_0 tsched=0' D: alsa-util.c: Trying front:0 with SND_PCM_NO_AUTO_FORMAT ... I: module-alsa-source.c: Successfully opened device front:0. I: module-alsa-source.c: Successfully enabled mmap() mode. I: (alsa-lib)control.c: Invalid CTL front:0 I: alsa-util.c: Unable to attach to mixer front:0: No such file or directory I: alsa-util.c: Successfully attached to mixer 'hw:0' I: alsa-util.c: Using mixer control "Capture". I: module-device-restore.c: Restoring volume for source alsa_input.pci_8086_293e_sound_card_0_alsa_capture_0. I: module-device-restore.c: Restoring mute state for source alsa_input.pci_8086_293e_sound_card_0_alsa_capture_0. I: source.c: Created source 0 "alsa_input.pci_8086_293e_sound_card_0_alsa_capture_0" with sample spec s16le 2ch 44100Hz and channel map front-left,front-right I: module-alsa-source.c: Using 8 fragments of size 1792 bytes, buffer time is 81.27ms D: module-alsa-source.c: hwbuf_unused=0 D: module-alsa-source.c: setting avail_min=1 I: module-alsa-source.c: Volume ranges from 0 to 15. I: module-alsa-source.c: Volume ranges from 0.00 dB to 22.50 dB. I: alsa-util.c: All 2 channels can be mapped to mixer channels. I: module-alsa-source.c: Using hardware volume control. Hardware dB scale supported. D: alsa-util.c: snd_pcm_dump(): D: alsa-util.c: Soft volume PCM D: alsa-util.c: Control: PCM Playback Volume D: alsa-util.c: min_dB: -51 D: alsa-util.c: max_dB: 0 D: alsa-util.c: resolution: 256 D: alsa-util.c: Its setup is: D: alsa-util.c: stream : CAPTURE D: alsa-util.c: access : MMAP_INTERLEAVED D: alsa-util.c: format : S16_LE D: alsa-util.c: subformat : STD D: alsa-util.c: channels : 2 D: alsa-util.c: rate : 44100 D: alsa-util.c: exact rate : 44100 (44100/1) D: alsa-util.c: msbits : 16 D: alsa-util.c: buffer_size : 3584 D: alsa-util.c: period_size : 448 D: alsa-util.c: period_time : 10158 D: alsa-util.c: tstamp_mode : ENABLE D: alsa-util.c: period_step : 1 D: alsa-util.c: avail_min : 448 D: alsa-util.c: period_event : 0 D: alsa-util.c: start_threshold : -1 D: alsa-util.c: stop_threshold : 8070450532247928832 D: alsa-util.c: silence_threshold: 0 D: alsa-util.c: silence_size : 0 D: alsa-util.c: boundary : 8070450532247928832 D: alsa-util.c: Slave: Hardware PCM card 0 'HDA Intel' device 0 subdevice 0 D: alsa-util.c: Its setup is: D: alsa-util.c: stream : CAPTURE D: alsa-util.c: access : MMAP_INTERLEAVED D: alsa-util.c: format : S16_LE D: alsa-util.c: subformat : STD D: alsa-util.c: channels : 2 D: alsa-util.c: rate : 44100 D: alsa-util.c: exact rate : 44100 (44100/1) D: alsa-util.c: msbits : 16 D: alsa-util.c: buffer_size : 3584 D: alsa-util.c: period_size : 448 D: alsa-util.c: period_time : 10158 D: alsa-util.c: tstamp_mode : ENABLE D: alsa-util.c: period_step : 1 D: alsa-util.c: avail_min : 448 D: alsa-util.c: period_event D: module-alsa-source.c: Thread starting up D: rtpoll.c: Acquired POSIX realtime signal SIGRTMIN+29 D: module-alsa-source.c: Requested volume: 0: 100% 1: 100% D: module-alsa-source.c: Got hardware volume: 0: 100% 1: 100% D: module-alsa-source.c: Calculated software volume: 0: 100% 1: 100% D: module-suspend-on-idle.c: Source alsa_input.pci_8086_293e_sound_card_0_alsa_capture_0 becomes idle. I: module.c: Loaded "module-alsa-source" (index: #4; argument: "device_id=0 source_name=alsa_input.pci_8086_293e_sound_card_0_alsa_capture_0 tsched=0"). D: module-hal-detect.c: Not loaded device /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_8086_293e_sound_card_0_alsa_playback_1 D: module-hal-detect.c: Loading module-alsa-sink with arguments 'device_id=0 sink_name=alsa_output.pci_8086_293e_sound_card_0_alsa_playback_0 tsched=0' D: alsa-util.c: Trying front:0 with SND_PCM_NO_AUTO_FORMAT ... I: module-alsa-sink.c: Successfully opened device front:0. I: module-alsa-sink.c: Successfully enabled mmap() mode. I: (alsa-lib)control.c: Invalid CTL front:0 I: alsa-util.c: Unable to attach to mixer front:0: No such file or directory I: alsa-util.c: Successfully attached to mixer 'hw:0' I: alsa-util.c: Using mixer control "Master". I: module-device-restore.c: Restoring volume for sink alsa_output.pci_8086_293e_sound_card_0_alsa_playback_0. I: module-device-restore.c: Restoring mute state for sink alsa_output.pci_8086_293e_sound_card_0_alsa_playback_0. I: sink.c: Created sink 0 "alsa_output.pci_8086_293e_sound_card_0_alsa_playback_0" with sample spec s16le 2ch 44100Hz and channel map front-left,front-right I: module-device-restore.c: Restoring volume for source alsa_output.pci_8086_293e_sound_card_0_alsa_playback_0.monitor. I: module-device-restore.c: Restoring mute state for source alsa_output.pci_8086_293e_sound_card_0_alsa_playback_0.monitor. I: source.c: Created source 1 "alsa_output.pci_8086_293e_sound_card_0_alsa_playback_0.monitor" with sample spec s16le 2ch 44100Hz and channel map front-left,front-right I: module-alsa-sink.c: Using 8 fragments of size 1792 bytes, buffer time is 81.27ms D: module-alsa-sink.c: hwbuf_unused=0 D: module-alsa-sink.c: setting avail_min=1 I: module-alsa-sink.c: Volume ranges from 0 to 127. I: module-alsa-sink.c: Volume ranges from -95.25 dB to 0.00 dB. I: alsa-util.c: ALSA device lacks independant volume controls for each channel. I: module-alsa-sink.c: Using hardware volume control. Hardware dB scale supported. D: alsa-util.c: snd_pcm_dump(): D: alsa-util.c: Soft volume PCM D: alsa-util.c: Control: PCM Playback Volume D: alsa-util.c: min_dB: -51 D: alsa-util.c: max_dB: 0 D: alsa-util.c: resolution: 256 D: alsa-util.c: Its setup is: D: alsa-util.c: stream : PLAYBACK D: alsa-util.c: access : MMAP_INTERLEAVED D: alsa-util.c: format : S16_LE D: alsa-util.c: subformat : STD D: alsa-util.c: channels : 2 D: alsa-util.c: rate : 44100 D: alsa-util.c: exact rate : 44100 (44100/1) D: alsa-util.c: msbits : 16 D: alsa-util.c: buffer_size : 3584 D: alsa-util.c: period_size : 448 D: alsa-util.c: period_time : 10158 D: alsa-util.c: tstamp_mode : ENABLE D: alsa-util.c: period_step : 1 D: alsa-util.c: avail_min : 448 D: alsa-util.c: period_event : 0 D: alsa-util.c: start_threshold : -1 D: alsa-util.c: stop_threshold : 8070450532247928832 D: alsa-util.c: silence_threshold: 0 D: alsa-util.c: silence_size : 0 D: alsa-util.c: boundary : 8070450532247928832 D: alsa-util.c: Slave: Hardware PCM card 0 'HDA Intel' device 0 subdevice 0 D: alsa-util.c: Its setup is: D: alsa-util.c: stream : PLAYBACK D: alsa-util.c: access : MMAP_INTERLEAVED D: alsa-util.c: format : S16_LE D: alsa-util.c: subformat : STD D: alsa-util.c: channels : 2 D: alsa-util.c: rate : 44100 D: alsa-util.c: exact rate : 44100 (44100/1) D: alsa-util.c: msbits : 16 D: alsa-util.c: buffer_size : 3584 D: alsa-util.c: period_size : 448 D: alsa-util.c: period_time : 10158 D: alsa-util.c: tstamp_mode : ENABLE D: alsa-util.c: period_step : 1 D: alsa-util.c: avail_min : 448 D: alsa-util.c: period_even D: module-alsa-sink.c: Thread starting up D: rtpoll.c: Acquired POSIX realtime signal SIGRTMIN+28 D: module-alsa-sink.c: Requested volume: 0: 98% 1: 98% D: module-alsa-sink.c: Got hardware volume: 0: 100% 1: 100% D: module-alsa-sink.c: Calculated software volume: 0: 98% 1: 98% I: module-alsa-sink.c: Starting playback. D: module-suspend-on-idle.c: Source alsa_output.pci_8086_293e_sound_card_0_alsa_playback_0.monitor becomes idle. D: module-suspend-on-idle.c: Sink alsa_output.pci_8086_293e_sound_card_0_alsa_playback_0 becomes idle. I: module.c: Loaded "module-alsa-sink" (index: #5; argument: "device_id=0 sink_name=alsa_output.pci_8086_293e_sound_card_0_alsa_playback_0 tsched=0"). D: module-hal-detect.c: Not loaded device /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_8086_293e_sound_card_0_alsa_control__1 I: module-hal-detect.c: Loaded 2 modules. I: module.c: Loaded "module-hal-detect" (index: #6; argument: "tsched=0"). D: cli-command.c: Checking for existance of '/usr/lib/pulse-0.9/modules/module-esound-protocol-unix.so': success I: module.c: Loaded "module-esound-protocol-unix" (index: #7; argument: ""). I: module.c: Loaded "module-native-protocol-unix" (index: #8; argument: ""). I: module-default-device-restore.c: Restored default sink 'alsa_output.pci_8086_293e_sound_card_0_alsa_playback_0'. D: core-subscribe.c: Dropped redundant event due to change event. I: module-default-device-restore.c: Restored default source 'alsa_input.pci_8086_293e_sound_card_0_alsa_capture_0'. I: module.c: Loaded "module-default-device-restore" (index: #9; argument: ""). I: module.c: Loaded "module-rescue-streams" (index: #10; argument: ""). I: module.c: Loaded "module-always-sink" (index: #11; argument: ""). I: client.c: Created 0 "ConsoleKit Session /org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Session1" D: module-console-kit.c: Added new session /org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Session1 I: module.c: Loaded "module-console-kit" (index: #12; argument: ""). I: module.c: Loaded "module-position-event-sounds" (index: #13; argument: ""). I: main.c: Daemon startup complete. D: module-hal-detect.c: dbus: interface=org.freedesktop.DBus, path=/org/freedesktop/DBus, member=NameAcquired D: module-console-kit.c: dbus: interface=org.freedesktop.DBus, path=/org/freedesktop/DBus, member=NameAcquired