Description of problem: Sound disappeared after some times changing "Profile" in Volume Control. I have tried to repair it by return working profile, but unsuccessfully. "pulseaudio[3602]: alsa-util.c: Cannot find fallback mixer control "PCM" or mixer control is no combination of switch/volume." appeared in message logs. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): pulseaudio.x86_64 0.9.15-8.test7.fc11 kernel.x86_64 2.6.29-16.fc11 alsa-lib.x86_64 1.0.19-3.fc11 Steps to Reproduce: 1. Play some music file 2. Volume Control 3. Configuration 4. Change profile up and down 3. Error: "Connection failed: Connection terminated"
Sound disappeared? Maybe you switched to the "off" profile? The log message is purely informational. You can safely ignore this.
Yep, Definitely there is no sound. :) No, my profile is "Output Analog Stereo + Input Analog Mono". I have tried mplayer through oss, but same result. My card is "Creative Labs SB Audigy". I'm sure it works, because i have tested it with livecd. There are two logs from "pulseaudio -vvv". First is just start, second is changing profile from "Output Analog Stereo + Input Analog Mono" to "Off" and back.
Created attachment 337985 [details] Start PulseAudio
Created attachment 337986 [details] Profile changing
I assume by by "no sound" you mean that the apps appear to assume that they play audio except that you cannot hear anything? Have you played around with 'alsamixer -c0'? If mplayer bypassing PA has the same issue then this is unrelated to PA.
Yes, u are right about what i assumed. :) Also you a right about 'alsamixer -c0', i have didn't know about it. The problem was in "Audigy Analog/Digital Output Jack", it was "On". It seems, that after fault this option has changed. As i can remember in F10 this parameter was in gnome mixer. Thank u! Now i have sound. :)
Hmm, seems to be a mixer default initialization issue. alsa-utils should set up the mixer hw up by default so that everything works. If that's not the case then the default mixer initialization db needs to be fixed. Reassigning to alsa-utils.
It's not alsa-utils bug. The initialization code does not know if the system has connected analog or digital speakers.
I think, that analog is more likely. May be the best solution is to include this option in gnome-volume-control or pavucontrol?
Jarsolav, what's are 'digital speakers'? SPDIF? If that's the case, is this switch toggled when the device is opened via 'spdif:'? If so, PA should support this just fine via the profile selection in pavucontrol.
If I remember correctly, Audigy cards shares one jack with both S/PDIF and analog output. And yes, we toggle this switch on when spdif device is used and off when the device is closed. It looks like that spdif PCM device was opened and then something crashed while profile change (ALSA PCM handle was not closed correctly - thus Analog/Digital switch value was not preserved).
Jaroslav. Maybe that control should be switched off when 'front:' or 'surround51:' or a similar device is opened?
Hmm, not sure what to do about this bug. Somehow I believe this somethin that should be fixed in ALSA, not in PA. PA has no clue about the meaning of the various ALSA controls. Hence assigning back.
Just a note for me: It seems that control value preserving should be implemented at kernel level (in the driver) to avoid exactly these cases when application crashes. We can eventually use some other mechanism like files on HDD or shared memory, but implementation will be more complicated that the kernel one. Note for Lennart: We cannot touch this control outside spdif device, because if user have digital speakers, working output from front: device is expected.
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