[pulseaudio-discuss] Intel HDA on ubuntu 9.04 beta

[Luke Yelavich]

On Fri, Apr 03, 2009 at 02:48:21AM EST, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> On Thu, 02.04.09 11:05, Jon Smirl (jonsmirl at gmail.com) wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Yes, I forgot I had edited default.pa before trying to get this work.
> > I removed those edits.
> > Then ran  Pulse with verbose....
> > 
> > These complaints come from probing the microphone on my USB webcam...
> > 
> > Apr  2 06:21:57 terra pulseaudio[6322]: alsa-util.c: Device hw:1
> > doesn't support 44100 Hz, changed to 16000 Hz.
> > Apr  2 06:21:57 terra pulseaudio[6322]: alsa-util.c: Device hw:1
> > doesn't support 2 channels, changed to 1.
> > Apr  2 06:21:57 terra pulseaudio[6322]: module-alsa-source.c: Your
> > kernel driver is broken: it reports a volume range from 18.00 dB to
> > 18.00 dB which makes no sense.
> > 
> > This is my main problem...
> > 
> > D: module-hal-detect.c: Not loaded device
> > /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_46d_990_BF15FF18_if2_alsa_control__1
> > D: module-hal-detect.c: Not loaded device
> > /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_8086_284b_alsa_control__1
> > 
> > The pci_8086_284b_alsa_control__1 device is my S/PDIF. Why is pulse
> > not loading it? That's why I had to manually edit the file.
> 
> Control is the mixer.
> 
> PA 0.9.10 only initialize the first device of a card. The reason for
> that is that we cannot deduce how the devices of a card relate to each
> other: are they the classic 3 stereo made to one 5.1, or are they
> spdif, or what are they.
> 
> PA 0.9.15 is now able to probe the available devices properly and thus
> supports easy selection of SPDIF during runtime.

Ubuntu 9.04 has 0.9.14. I don't know where you got the idea that we are shipping 0.9.10, unless your system has had an incomplete upgrade.

Luke