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Sound stops playing in Ubuntu 8.04

Asked by seanh

I'm trying to fix an issue on a friend's laptop. It's a fully updated
hardy/8.04 install. Every now and then, in the middle of a session,
sound will stop playing. Any sound player: totem, rhythmbox, mplayer,
etc., will show progress stuck at 0 and play no sound when you press
play. It affects any type of sound, local mp3 or ogg file, stream,
etc. Sometimes trying to play another file will cause everything to
start working again but generally not. A restart fixes it temporarily.

I searched launchpad etc. but couldn't find any information about
this. Is it a known bug? Is there a workaround? Will upgrading to
Intrepid get rid of it?

I suspect this is something to do with pulseaudio, which I think was
introduced for hardy.

The laptop in question is a ThinkPad R60e, the audio is an onboard
Intel 82801G (module snd_hda_intel). I'll attach the complete output
of lshw as a file.

Thanks

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seanh (seanh) said : 		#1

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             product: 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 1
             vendor: Intel Corporation
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             vendor: Intel Corporation
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             bus info: pci@0000:00:1c.1
             version: 02
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             product: 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 3
             vendor: Intel Corporation
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             product: 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 4
             vendor: Intel Corporation
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             bus info: pci@0000:00:1c.3
             version: 02
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             clock: 33MHz
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             product: 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1
             vendor: Intel Corporation
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             vendor: Intel Corporation
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             vendor: Intel Corporation
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             product: 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller
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             vendor: Intel Corporation
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                vendor: Hitachi
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             vendor: Intel Corporation
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notvery (jasonrsmart) said : 		#2

Although its no help i am experiencing similar issues, i own a Dell inspiron 6000 and since updating to the latest release have been without sound. i did at the time install the gstream extra codec option. but since then ive been silent.

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seanh (seanh) said : 		#3

I received a workaround on the ubuntu-users list: change everything to use alsa instead of pulseaudio. This works for me:

Open up a Terminal, and type this:

sudo killall pulseaudio

sudo alsa force-reload

and then go to System>Preferences>Sound and change everything to ALSA

https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/alsa-driver/+question/51862