Bug 293472 – media-sound/pulseaudio: Very silent sound after upgrading to pulseaudio 0.9.20-r50

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Alexey Androsov 2009-11-17 08:51:08 UTC]

I updated pulseaudio to 0.9.20-r50 and now have very silent sound on my intel hda soundcard.

When I downgraded it to 0.9.19-r51 all works well.

Reproducible: Always

Actual Results:  
Very silent sound with 0.9.20-r50

Expected Results:  
Same sound volume as in 0.9.19-r51


System: ~amd64

lspci:
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 02)


$ emerge --info                                                                                      
Portage 2.1.7.5 (default/linux/amd64/10.0/no-multilib, gcc-4.4.2, glibc-2.11-r0, 2.6.31.6 x86_64)                                
=================================================================                                                                
System uname: Linux-2.6.31.6-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_CPU_T7200_@_2.00GHz-with-gentoo-2.0.1                                     
Timestamp of tree: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 05:15:02 +0000                                                                               
app-shells/bash:     4.0_p35                                                                                                     
dev-java/java-config: 2.1.9-r1                                                                                                   
dev-lang/python:     2.6.4, 3.1.1-r1                                                                                             
dev-util/cmake:      2.8.0                                                                                                       
sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.1                                                                                                       
sys-apps/openrc:     0.5.2-r2                                                                                                    
sys-apps/sandbox:    2.2                                                                                                         
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.63-r1                                                                                               
sys-devel/automake:  1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2, 1.11                                                                                      
sys-devel/binutils:  2.20                                                                                                        
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1
sys-devel/libtool:   2.2.6b
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.30-r1
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64"
ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="assume-digests distlocks fixpackages news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.yandex.ru/gentoo-distfiles/ "
LANG="ru_RU.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=""
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1"
LINGUAS="en ru"
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage/layman/kde-testing"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X acl acpi akonadi alsa amd64 apm aspell bash-completion bluetooth bzip2 cairo cdr cli connection-sharing consolekit cracklib crypt cups dbus dga dhcp dhcpcd djvu dri dvd dvdr encode exif expat extras ffmpeg flac gdbm gif git gpm gstreamer hal iconv java java6 jpeg jpeg2k kde lcms lm_sensors lzma mmx mng modules mp3 mp4 mpeg mudflap mysql ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin ogg opengl openmp pam pcre pdf perl phonon plasma pm-utils png postscript ppds pppd ps pulseaudio python qt3support qt4 rar readline reflection resolvconf samba session spell spl sql sqlite sse sse2 ssl ssse3 subversion svg sysfs syslog tcpd theora threads tiff truetype unicode usb vorbis wavpack webkit wicd wifi xml xmlpatterns xmp xorg xvid zip zlib" ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="*" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev synaptics" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en ru" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="intel"
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS


$emerge -pv pulseaudio
[ebuild   R   ] media-sound/pulseaudio-0.9.19-r51  USE="X alsa asyncns caps dbus glib tcpd udev -avahi -bluetooth -doc -gnome -hal -ipv6 -jack -libsamplerate -lirc (-oss) -test"

[Comment 1 Jérémie Horhant 2009-11-18 15:47:53 UTC]

I have the same problem.

System:
~amd64

lspci:
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03)

emerge --info :
Portage 2.2_rc50 (default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop, gcc-4.3.4, glibc-2.9_p20081201-r2, 2.6.31-gentoo-r3-d x86_64)
=================================================================                                                
System uname: Linux-2.6.31-gentoo-r3-d-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Duo_CPU_T8300_@_2.40GHz-with-gentoo-2.0.1       
Timestamp of tree: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:45:01 +0000                                                               
ccache version 2.4 [disabled]                                                                                    
app-shells/bash:     4.0_p28                                                                                     
dev-java/java-config: 2.1.9-r1                                                                                   
dev-lang/python:     2.5.4-r3, 2.6.2-r1
dev-util/ccache:     2.4-r7
dev-util/cmake:      2.6.4-r3
sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.1
sys-apps/openrc:     0.5.2-r2
sys-apps/sandbox:    2.2
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.63-r1
sys-devel/automake:  1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2
sys-devel/binutils:  2.18-r3
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1
sys-devel/libtool:   2.2.6b
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.30-r1
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=core2"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=core2"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="assume-digests distlocks fixpackages news parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.free.fr/mirrors/ftp.gentoo.org/ "
LC_ALL="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1"
LINGUAS="fr"
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/portage/local/layman/enlightenment"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X a52 aac acl acpi alsa amd64 apache2 avahi bash-completion berkdb bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo caps cdr cli consolekit cracklib crypt cups dbus dell dri dts dvd dvdr eds emboss encode evo exif fam flac fortran gdbm gif gpm gstreamer gtk hal iconv ieee1394 ipv6 java6 jpeg kde laptop ldap libnotify mad mikmod mmx modules mp3 mp4 mpeg mudflap multilib musicbrainz ncurses nfs nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin ogg opengl openmp openvpn pam pcre pdf perl plasma png policykit ppds pppd pulseaudio python qt3support qt4 quicktime readline reflection sdl semantic-desktop session smp speex spell spl sse sse2 ssl ssse3 startup-notification svg sysfs tcpd threads thunar tiff truetype unicode usb v4l v4l2 vorbis wifi x264 xcomposite xinerama xml xorg xscreensaver xulrunner xv xvid xvmc zeroconf zlib" ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic auth_digest authn_anon authn_dbd authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock dbd deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers ident imagemap include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation proxy proxy_ajp proxy_balancer proxy_connect proxy_http rewrite setenvif so speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" APACHE2_MPMS="worker" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev keyboard mouse synaptics" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="fr" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia"
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

emerge -pv pulseaudio :
[ebuild   R   ] media-sound/pulseaudio-0.9.20-r50  USE="X alsa asyncns avahi caps dbus glib ipv6 libsamplerate tcpd udev -bluetooth -doc -gnome -hal -jack -lirc (-oss) -test" 0 kB

[Comment 2 Derek Dolney 2009-11-20 14:54:59 UTC]

Me too. A little more info: the volume up/down with the gnome pulseaudio volume applet and gnome keyboard shortcuts don't effect a mixer device. I don't know what they are doing: they show a volume going up/down, and mute, but I does not affect any mixer I can see with alsamixer (not master, not pcm, nothing). I can use alsamixer to change the volume, but it won't go very loud with this version of pulseaudio.

[Comment 3 Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) 2009-11-23 12:28:29 UTC]

Should be fixed with .21.

[Comment 4 Alexey Androsov 2009-11-24 11:40:50 UTC]

Problem is gone. Thank you!