Public bug reported: All of a sudden and for no apparent reason I have found pulseaudio connecting to the digital rather than analogue audio I/O when it starts. When I open alsamixer it appears that digital is all that is available. This doesn't happen every time, so logging out, killing pulseaudio, removing and reloading the snd-hda-intel module, and then logging back in again, usually puts it right.
What should happen is that the inputs and outputs that you want to use for your sound card should be the ones that are made available and selected. Always. I should mention, just in case there is some connection, that my KDE startup has started failing at around the same time. What happens is that many of my autostart scripts and applications don't start. A third thing that has started recently has been that Flash and Skype both seem to be disconnecting themselves from Pulseaudio very frequently, requiring them to be killed and restarted. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10 Package: alsa-base 1.0.23+dfsg-1ubuntu4 Uname: Linux 2.6.33-29-realtime x86_64 AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.21. Architecture: amd64 Card0.Amixer.info: Card hw:0 'Intel'/'HDA Intel at 0xfe100000 irq 31' Mixer name : 'Conexant CX20549 (Venice)' Components : 'HDA:14f15045,17aa20db,00100100' Controls : 19 Simple ctrls : 9 Card1.Amixer.info: Card hw:1 'UA1EX'/'EDIROL UA-1EX at usb-0000:00:1d.0-1, full speed' Mixer name : '' Components : 'USB0582:0096' Controls : 0 Simple ctrls : 0 Card1.Amixer.values: Card29.Amixer.info: Card hw:29 'ThinkPadEC'/'ThinkPad Console Audio Control at EC reg 0x30, fw 7KHT22WW-1.06' Mixer name : 'ThinkPad EC 7KHT22WW-1.06' Components : '' Controls : 1 Simple ctrls : 1 Card29.Amixer.values: Simple mixer control 'Console',0 Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined penum Playback channels: Mono Mono: Playback [on] Date: Tue Feb 22 11:15:24 2011 InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027) PackageArchitecture: all ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=en_GB LANG=en_GB.utf8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: alsa-driver dmi.bios.date: 06/28/2007 dmi.bios.vendor: LENOVO dmi.bios.version: 7OET24WW (1.03 ) dmi.board.name: 8932A11 dmi.board.vendor: LENOVO dmi.board.version: Not Available dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Information dmi.chassis.type: 10 dmi.chassis.vendor: LENOVO dmi.chassis.version: Not Available dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnLENOVO:bvr7OET24WW(1.03):bd06/28/2007:svnLENOVO:pn8932A11:pvrThinkPadR61/R61i:rvnLENOVO:rn8932A11:rvrNotAvailable:cvnLENOVO:ct10:cvrNotAvailable: dmi.product.name: 8932A11 dmi.product.version: ThinkPad R61/R61i dmi.sys.vendor: LENOVO ** Affects: alsa-driver (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: amd64 apport-bug maverick -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/723065 Title: only digital audio available on HDA device when analogue wanted -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs