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See this document for currently supported Ubuntu releases: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases We appreciate that this bug may be old and you might not be interested in discussing it any more. But if you are then please upgrade to the latest Ubuntu version and re-test. ** Changed in: pulseaudio (Ubuntu) Status: New => Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to pulseaudio in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/870345 Title: Missing access to sound cards? Status in pulseaudio package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: Pulseaudio doesn't find any sound cards, resulting with no sound. After killing the daemon by killall pulseaudio -9 and restarting it as root by puslseaudio --system, everything starts working fine. On SOME sessions it does start, on some it doesn't. It's very hard to reproduce this. I am using Sound Blaster Live card. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 Package: pulseaudio 1:1.0-0ubuntu3 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.19-generic 3.0.4 Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic i686 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.24. ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu2 Architecture: i386 AudioDevicesInUse: USER PID ACCESS COMMAND /dev/snd/controlC1: tommy 2260 F.... pulseaudio /dev/snd/controlC0: tommy 2260 F.... pulseaudio /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p: tommy 2260 F...m pulseaudio Card0.Amixer.info: Card hw:0 'Live'/'SB Live! 5.1 (rev.8, serial:0x80641102) at 0xdf00, irq 19' Mixer name : 'SigmaTel STAC9708,11' Components : 'AC97a:83847608' Controls : 225 Simple ctrls : 45 Card1.Amixer.info: Card hw:1 'U0x46d0x825'/'USB Device 0x46d:0x825 at usb-0000:00:1d.7-7, high speed' Mixer name : 'USB Mixer' Components : 'USB046d:0825' Controls : 2 Simple ctrls : 1 Card1.Amixer.values: Simple mixer control 'Mic',0 Capabilities: cvolume cvolume-joined cswitch cswitch-joined penum Capture channels: Mono Limits: Capture 0 - 6144 Mono: Capture 6144 [100%] [30.00dB] [on] Date: Sat Oct 8 00:03:34 2011 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Beta i386 (20110901) ProcEnviron: PATH=(custom, no user) LANG=pl_PL.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: pulseaudio UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-09-22 (15 days ago) dmi.bios.date: 10/13/2009 dmi.bios.vendor: Award Software International, Inc. dmi.bios.version: FF dmi.board.name: G31M-ES2L dmi.board.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. dmi.board.version: x.x dmi.chassis.type: 3 dmi.chassis.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAwardSoftwareInternational,Inc.:bvrFF:bd10/13/2009:svnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:pnG31M-ES2L:pvr:rvnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:rnG31M-ES2L:rvrx.x:cvnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:ct3:cvr: dmi.product.name: G31M-ES2L dmi.sys.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/+bug/870345/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp