Bug 523340

Summary: High-freq sound coming from speakers when device is closed for 10 seconds
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Andreas <core12>
Component: kernelAssignee: Jaroslav Kysela <jkysela>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 12CC: awilliam, diego.fedora, itamar, kernel-maint, lkundrak, lpoetter, wtogami
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Description Andreas 2009-09-14 23:12:14 UTC
Description of problem:
As description says, a high-frequency sound coming from the speakers when there has been no connection to pulseaudio for ~10 seconds. Very annoying, and a regression, seeing as I use pulse now on ubuntu, and it works nice.

How reproducible:
every time

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Boot fedora, turn on speakers
2. done
  
Actual results:
High-freq sound coming from speakers

Expected results:
silence

Additional info:
The sound disappear when anything is connected to pulseaudio (it seems). Even the pa-volume-control

hw-info: http://www.smolts.org/client/show/?uuid=pub_044784f1-3d15-4c08-a282-6c1300053734

Seems like its the "ATI Technologies Inc SB600 Azalia" that is the sinner, seeing as I don't use anything but the dvi-output from the card.

What logs are needed for this?

Comment 1 Lennart Poettering 2009-09-15 01:22:00 UTC
Sounds more like a driver/hw problem.

Could you please run "pacmd ls" when you hear this and attach this here. If everything is correct in PA this should tell us that no app is playing audio an the device closed becuase idle. If that is the case then we should reassign this to the kernel, as it is a kernel driver/hw prob.

Comment 2 Andreas 2009-09-16 15:46:00 UTC
Created attachment 361305 [details]
output from pacmd ls

Comment 3 Andreas 2009-09-16 16:25:19 UTC
Created attachment 361316 [details]
alsa-info.sh output

Comment 4 Lennart Poettering 2009-09-17 02:42:47 UTC
The "pacmd ls" shows that all of PA's sinks are in state "SUSPENDED" meaning that the devices are closed. If you hear noise this means the sound must come from somewhere else.

Comment 5 Andreas 2009-09-17 08:21:04 UTC
Why changing from "10 seconds" to "for a while?", I counted, and it starts after pretty much 10 seconds every time.

Comment 6 Adam Williamson 2009-09-22 19:54:14 UTC
do you see any interesting messages in /var/log/messages ? especially around the time the problem kicks in / goes away (when you start playing sound).

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Comment 7 Andreas 2009-09-22 20:33:15 UTC
I'll get a copy of /var/log/messages uploaded as soon as I get the time (hopefully tomorrow). Any other files that would be interesting?

Comment 8 Andreas 2009-11-03 00:30:34 UTC
The problem seems to be the same as described on launchpad, and can (probably,haven't tested it yet) temporarily be solved by changing "options snd-hda-intel power_save=10 power_save_controller=N" to "options snd-hda-intel power_save=0 power_save_controller=N" in alsa-base.conf

Will test when I get the time.

Comment 9 Bug Zapper 2009-11-16 12:23:10 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 12 development cycle.
Changing version to '12'.

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Comment 10 Diego Amores 2009-12-01 18:09:05 UTC
I can confirm that adding line "options snd-hda-intel power_save=0" to a file in /etc/modprobe.d (for example /etc/modprobe.d/snd_hda_intel.conf) and rebooting works as a workaround for me.

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