[pulseaudio-discuss] Various pulse issues on F11

[Ozan Çağlayan]

Richard Shaw wrote:
> Ok, recently updated to F11 and now I'm having a few pulseaudio
> issues. I've gotten several error messages but I'm not always sure
> what specific actions cause them but I'll do my best to explain them.
>
> #1 When adjusting the volume from the Output Devices tab of
> pavucontrol (0.9.8) I get the following error "Connection failed:
> Connection terminated"
>
> #2 Unreliable audio from flash video. The default gnome volume control
> app has no effect on volume (from the panel). Volume control sliders
> from inside the Sound Preferences does work but break audio. After
> that I have to log out and log back in to get audio. (Maybe same as #1
> but the panel app doesn't show errors?)
>
> #3 Probably related to #1 but the tabs inside the panel app are often
> very unresponsive and it can take a few seconds to change between
> tabs. volume sliders are can also be sluggish.
>
> #4 Rhythembox: glitchy audio. Panel volume control has no effect.
> Probably the same as #1
>
> That's all I can think of right now. Some specs, logs, etc, below.
>
> Hardware:
> AMD X2 2.7GHz on AMD 770 MB.
>
> lspci -v output for audio:
> 00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA)
> 	Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology Device a022
> 	Flags: bus master, slow devsel, latency 32, IRQ 16
> 	Memory at fe024000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
> 	Capabilities: <access denied>
> 	Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel
> 	Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel
>   

I've got similar issues especially with that ATI device. PA dies because
of cpu overload after launching pavucontrol. Didn't have time to report
it detailly here..