Seeing something similar on my laptop, when I run gnome-volume-control the sound cuts out and pulseaudio drops my real audio device. Restarting pulseaudio gets things working again.
80:01.0 Audio device: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT1708/A [Azalia HDAC] (VIA High Definition Audio Controller) (rev 10) Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 3030 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 17 Memory at febfc000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K] Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2 Capabilities: [60] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit+ Queue=0/0 Enable- Capabilities: [70] Express Root Complex Integrated Endpoint, MSI 00 Capabilities: [100] Virtual Channel <?> Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel -- No sound; Output device null https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/413806 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs