[pulseaudio-tickets] [PulseAudio] #383: HAL detect module cannot find ALSA card (hda-intel) on Thinkpad T61

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#383: HAL detect module cannot find ALSA card (hda-intel) on Thinkpad T61
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 Reporter:  mgrela              |       Owner:  lennart
     Type:  defect              |      Status:  new    
 Priority:  normal              |   Milestone:         
Component:  daemon              |    Severity:  normal 
 Keywords:  hal intel-hda alsa  |  
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 Hi

 I'm having problems using pulseaudio on my Thinkpad T61. It doesn`t detect
 any audio sinks when run. I`m using hal-detect to do the device detection
 and it throws some weird messages in the logs (attached). The pactl stat
 command gives me:

 grela at 4pll00555 ~ $ pactl stat
 Currently in use: 1 blocks containing 63,9 KiB bytes total.
 Allocated during whole lifetime: 1 blocks containing 63,9 KiB bytes total.
 Sample cache size: 0 B
 User name: grela
 Host Name: 4pll00555
 Server Name: pulseaudio
 Server Version: 0.9.12
 Default Sample Specification: s16le 2ch 44100Hz
 Default Sink: auto_null
 Default Source: auto_null.monitor
 Cookie: ded33829

 I`m using pulseaudio-0.9.12 together with hal-0.5.1 and hal-info-20080508
 on a Gentoo system. The sound works find using plain ALSA when running
 aplay -L:

 4pll00555 ~ # aplay -L
 default:CARD=Intel
     HDA Intel, AD198x Analog
     Default Audio Device
 front:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
     HDA Intel, AD198x Analog
     Front speakers
 surround40:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
     HDA Intel, AD198x Analog
     4.0 Surround output to Front and Rear speakers
 surround41:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
     HDA Intel, AD198x Analog
     4.1 Surround output to Front, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
 surround50:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
     HDA Intel, AD198x Analog
     5.0 Surround output to Front, Center and Rear speakers
 surround51:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
     HDA Intel, AD198x Analog
     5.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
 surround71:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
     HDA Intel, AD198x Analog
     7.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Side, Rear and Woofer speakers
 hdmi:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
     HDA Intel
     HDMI Audio Output
 null
     Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture)

 or speaker-test:

 4pll00555 ~ # speaker-test

 speaker-test 1.0.17

 Playback device is default
 Stream parameters are 48000Hz, S16_LE, 1 channels
 Using 16 octaves of pink noise
 Rate set to 48000Hz (requested 48000Hz)
 Buffer size range from 2048 to 8192
 Period size range from 1024 to 1024
 Using max buffer size 8192
 Periods = 4
 was set period_size = 1024
 was set buffer_size = 8192
  0 - Front Left
 Time per period = 2,835575
  0 - Front Left
 Time per period = 2,986571
  0 - Front Left

 I`ve used a tool from the ALSA page to gather some info about my system.
 Here is is:

 http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=054c11a5bc55a1d30084d3cfcdbf2cea9c6c16f9

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