[Solved] Sound card not recognized by pulseaudio

[gitterrost4]

Hello,

under Debian Testing, pulseaudio doesn't detect my sound card. In the "Sound Preferences" Dialog I only get "Dummy Output"

lspci:

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    $ lspci | grep -i audio
    00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 04)

Does anyone have an idea?

[craigevil]

Might try:

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Change /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf

# Power down HDA controllers after 10 idle seconds
options snd-hda-intel model=dell-3stack

sudo alsa force-reload

In 'Sound Preferences' -> 'Hardware' set Profile -> Analog Stereo Duplex

Pulseaudio is one of those things that if you can do without it you are better off not using it. It is buggier than windowsme.

[gitterrost4]

I did this, and after the alsa force-reload command my sound worked.

Now I have to use the reload command every time I reboot my system.

Furthermore I would prefer to continue using PulseAudio

[gitterrost4]

A friend (now a very good friend) of mine helped me out. Apparently the application speech-dispatcher was installed and somehow blocked the sound system. After removing speech-dispatcher everything worked fine.

For the record: This showed the problem

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$ sudo lsof /dev/snd/*
COMMAND    PID              USER   FD   TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME
sd_espeak 1978 speech-dispatcher  mem    CHR 116,16          3288 /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p
sd_espeak 1978 speech-dispatcher    8r   CHR 116,33      0t0 2663 /dev/snd/timer
sd_espeak 1978 speech-dispatcher    9u   CHR 116,16      0t0 3288 /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p
sd_espeak 1978 speech-dispatcher   10u   CHR  116,0      0t0 3318 /dev/snd/controlC0
sd_flite  1983 speech-dispatcher  mem    CHR 116,16          3288 /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p
sd_flite  1983 speech-dispatcher   14r   CHR 116,33      0t0 2663 /dev/snd/timer
sd_flite  1983 speech-dispatcher   16u   CHR 116,16      0t0 3288 /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p
sd_flite  1983 speech-dispatcher   17u   CHR  116,0      0t0 3318 /dev/snd/controlC0
timidity  2184          timidity    6u   CHR  116,1      0t0 2679 /dev/snd/seq