for unknown reason which pulseaudio did not probe surround40
pulseaudio still using timer base scheduling in your last log but it was strange tradtional mode was used in your first log 20:25:49 homecomp pulseaudio[11971]: [pulseaudio] sink.c: alsa.name = "CA0106" Jan 02 20:25:49 homecomp pulseaudio[11971]: [pulseaudio] sink.c: alsa.id = "ca0106" Jan 02 20:25:49 homecomp pulseaudio[11971]: [pulseaudio] sink.c: alsa.subdevice = "0" Jan 02 20:25:49 homecomp pulseaudio[11971]: [pulseaudio] sink.c: alsa.subdevice_name = "subdevice #0" Jan 02 20:25:49 homecomp pulseaudio[11971]: [pulseaudio] sink.c: alsa.device = "0" Jan 02 20:25:49 homecomp pulseaudio[11971]: [pulseaudio] sink.c: alsa.card = "0" Jan 02 20:25:49 homecomp pulseaudio[11971]: [pulseaudio] sink.c: alsa.card_name = "CA0106" Jan 02 20:25:49 homecomp pulseaudio[11971]: [pulseaudio] sink.c: alsa.long_card_name = "Live! 7.1 24bit [SB0410] at 0xcf00 irq 19" Jan 02 20:25:49 homecomp pulseaudio[11971]: [pulseaudio] sink.c: alsa.driver_name = "snd_ca0106" Jan 02 20:25:49 homecomp pulseaudio[11971]: [pulseaudio] sink.c: device.bus_path = "pci-0000:06:00.0" Jan 02 20:25:49 homecomp pulseaudio[11971]: [pulseaudio] sink.c: sysfs.path = "/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1c.3/0000:05:00.0/0000:06:00.0/sound/card0" Jan 02 20:25:49 homecomp pulseaudio[11971]: [pulseaudio] sink.c: device.bus = "pci" Jan 02 20:25:49 homecomp pulseaudio[11971]: [pulseaudio] sink.c: device.vendor.id = "1102" Jan 02 20:25:49 homecomp pulseaudio[11971]: [pulseaudio] sink.c: device.vendor.name = "Creative Labs" Jan 02 20:25:49 homecomp pulseaudio[11971]: [pulseaudio] sink.c: device.product.id = "0007" Jan 02 20:25:49 homecomp pulseaudio[11971]: [pulseaudio] sink.c: device.product.name = "CA0106 Soundblaster (SB0410 SBLive! 24-bit)" Jan 02 20:25:49 homecomp pulseaudio[11971]: [pulseaudio] sink.c: device.string = "front:0" Jan 02 20:25:49 homecomp pulseaudio[11971]: [pulseaudio] sink.c: device.buffering.buffer_size = "65536" Jan 02 20:25:49 homecomp pulseaudio[11971]: [pulseaudio] sink.c: device.buffering.fragment_size = "32768" Jan 02 20:25:49 homecomp pulseaudio[11971]: [pulseaudio] sink.c: device.access_mode = "mmap+timer" Jan 02 20:25:49 homecomp pulseaudio[11971]: [pulseaudio] sink.c: device.profile.name = "analog-stereo" Dec 25 19:33:27 homecomp pulseaudio[1911]: module-stream-restore.id = "sink-input-by-application-name:paplay" Dec 25 19:33:27 homecomp pulseaudio[1911]: Requested tlength=2000.00 ms, minreq=20.00 ms Dec 25 19:33:27 homecomp pulseaudio[1911]: Traditional mode enabled, modifying sink usec only for compat with minreq. Dec 25 19:33:27 homecomp pulseaudio[1911]: Requested latency=1960.00 ms, Received latency=341.33 ms Dec 25 19:33:27 homecomp pulseaudio[1911]: memblockq requested: maxlength=4194304, tlength=192000, base=2, prebuf=190082, minreq=1920 maxrewind=0 Dec 25 19:33:27 homecomp pulseaudio[1911]: memblockq sanitized: maxlength=4194304, tlength=192000, base=2, prebuf=190082, minreq=1920 maxrewind=0 Dec 25 19:33:27 homecomp pulseaudio[1911]: Final latency 2341.33 ms = 1960.00 ms + 2*20.00 ms + 341.33 ms Dec 25 19:33:27 homecomp pulseaudio[1911]: Latency set to 26.00ms Dec 25 19:33:27 homecomp pulseaudio[1911]: hwbuf_unused=60544 Dec 25 19:33:27 homecomp pulseaudio[1911]: setting avail_min=15617 the driver need to provide accurate hw_ptr position in order to set hwbuf_unused to non zero the actual buffer used = buffer size (65536) - hwbuf_unused (60544) is 5012 bytes -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1315212 Title: [CA0106 - CA0106, playback] Playback problem - Surround dies, no valid output To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/alsa-driver/+bug/1315212/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs