PulseAudio does not detect ThinkPad R61 correctly

I tested the default install on my T61p laptop and did not have the same issue. I have attached the output of lspci. I am not sure what the chipset differences are between the T61 and the R61 but hope this could help determine if it is a hardware detection issue as was suggested by the OP.

I just checked the Lenovo web site (http://tinyurl.com/5gj4yv) and the driver package for Windows is the same. Again I hope this helps.

I have found out that with my modified default.pa sometimes the pulseaudio does not start after login (maybe some pulseaudio error not related with this, who knows). Moving the two lines

load-module module-alsa-sink
load-module module-alsa-source

to the end of the file seems not to trigger this problem. I attach this modified file again.

Forget previous post, it's just some bug in pulseaudio, doesn't really matter how the configuration file looks like.

I tested this on a new R61 and could not replicate the problem. I am converting this to a question so the user can get a resolution, but this no longer appears to be a bug.

That is really weird. I have Lenovo R61 8919-DEG. What type do you have, PrivateVoid? Not all R61 are the same.

By the way, by converting this to question all file attachments have been lost. Which is quite bad. And, it's not a question. I can handle the problem by mentioned workaround. I hoped programmers can fix the issue for other users.

It's all right, file attachments were not lost, they are in original bug report. So that's not a problem, sorry for misreporting.

I have just tried Ubuntu 8.04 from LiveCD and the problem is still the same:

$ killall pulseaudio
$ pulseaudio
ALSA lib control.c:909:(snd_ctl_open_noupdate) Invalid CTL front:0
ALSA lib control.c:909:(snd_ctl_open_noupdate) Invalid CTL front:0

Since it is livecd, it is all really in the default state. I strongly insist that this is a bug and should be solved. It may not be a problem on all R61 since there are a lot of versions, but on my R61 8919-DEG it is a problem. How can I convert this question back to a bug?

I have converted this question back to a bug #242103.

same problem (thank you Kamil for the fix) on an nx9105 laptop and with intrepid alpha6.

Should fix in pulseaudio I think. What commandare necessary?
lspci -vvvnnn
00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller [0401]: nVidia Corporation nForce3 Audio [10de:00da] (rev a2)
 Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:006d]
 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
 Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
 Latency: 0 (500ns min, 1250ns max)
 Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 21
 Region 0: I/O ports at 1400 [size=256]
 Region 1: I/O ports at 1c00 [size=128]
 Region 2: Memory at e8002000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
 Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2
  Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
  Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
 Kernel driver in use: Intel ICH
 Kernel modules: snd-intel8x0

uname -a:
Linux buza 2.6.27-4-generic #1 SMP Wed Sep 24 01:30:51 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux

pulseaudio:
ii gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio 0.10.10-1
ii pulseaudio 0.9.10-2ubuntu6
ii pulseaudio-module-hal 0.9.10-2ubuntu6

alsa:
ii alsa-base 1.0.17.dfsg-2ubuntu1
ii alsa-utils 1.0.17-0ubuntu2

might be this can help to setup pulseaudio apps...: http://www.pulseaudio.org/wiki/PerfectSetup

Hope this helps