Comment 41 for bug 394500

On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 12:50 AM, Shannon VanWagner
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> Awesome....thanks for the tip (see output below) -  it's the slmodemd
> process - must be for the 56k modem that's built into this laptop. I
> remember "enabling" the Hardware Driver for the modem, shortly after
> installing Karmic... perhaps that's when the sound stopped working for
> me too. One more question, I now have sound but it's very quiet, even
> with the volume level set very high. Is there something I can do to fix
> that? Also, what's the best way go about stopping the slmodemd from
> loading, or otherwise keeping it from stepping on the pulseaudio?

slmodemd is likely invoked from an initscript or Xsession script. You
can check which package contains it, then list the contents of said
package to see which file to inspect:

dpkg -S bin/slmodemd