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wsiddall

Member

Registered: 2008-10-09

Posts: 13

Latest kernel upgrade to 3.4.3-1 breaks pulseaudio sound

At first I thought it was pulseaudio that was broken, but when I load pasystray and volume control, all audio outputs show activity on the equalizer.  This means that the audio is not getting from pulseaudio to the speakers are not working.

On the latest upgrade, I did also have to deal with dropping udev for systemd-tools.  Would this have something to do with it?  No config files have changed.

I don't know what else to put in, so ask anything that you would need to know to help me figure this out.

Latest versions of related software:
linux 3.4.3-1
pulseaudio 2.0-2
pulseaudio-alsa 2-1
libpulse 2.0-2

 $ lsmod | grep snd
snd_hda_codec_hdmi     23672  4 
snd_hda_codec_idt      55508  1 
snd_hda_intel          24053  4 
snd_hda_codec          94273  3 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec_idt,snd_hda_intel
snd_hwdep               6300  1 snd_hda_codec
snd_pcm                74958  3 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel
snd_page_alloc          7217  2 snd_pcm,snd_hda_intel
snd_timer              18966  1 snd_pcm
snd                    58997  15 snd_hwdep,snd_timer,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec_idt,snd_pcm,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel
soundcore               5410  1 snd

 $ cat /etc/asound.conf
pcm.pulse {
  type pulse
}
ctl.pulse {
  type pulse
}

# Use PulseAudio by default
pcm.!default {
  type pulse
#  fallback "sysdefault"
  hint {
    show on
    description "Default ALSA Output (currently PulseAudio Sound Server)"
  }
}

ctl.!default {
  type pulse
#  fallback "sysdefault"
}

Thanks for the help

wsiddall

Member

Registered: 2008-10-09

Posts: 13

Re: Latest kernel upgrade to 3.4.3-1 breaks pulseaudio sound

Update, for those working with an HP Pavilion who run into this problem, please try editing your modprobe.conf file by making these changes:

#options snd-hda-intel model=hp-dv5 enable_msi=1
options snd-hda-intel enable_msi=1

Removing the "model" parameter has helped and after a reboot, allowed me to play through the speakers again.