Audio in Ubuntu 9.10 acting weird

isolatedsh33p · 12-20-2009, 04:25 AM

Just like the title, my Ubuntu 9.10 audio acts really weird to me. Sometimes I can't record anything using the sound recorder and the immediate muting of the loud speaker when i plugged in my headphone doesn't work, but then all of sudden it worked and then the problem might occur again. It's like, in some period the audio works perfectly well as if there's not bug, and then it goes wrong.

What I noticed is that the problem reoccur when I shutdown/restart my PC and after few minutes/hours/days it works fine again. Does anyone know why this happens and help me solve this problem?

Btw, output for "lspci -v"

Code:

00:01.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 PCI to PCI bridge (int gfx)
	Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 66
	Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=68
	I/O behind bridge: 00009000-00009fff
	Memory behind bridge: cfd00000-cfefffff
	Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 00000000d0000000-00000000dfffffff
	Capabilities: <access denied>
	Kernel modules: shpchp

00:06.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 PCI to PCI bridge (PCIE port 2)
	Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
	Bus: primary=00, secondary=05, subordinate=05, sec-latency=0
	Memory behind bridge: f0500000-f05fffff
	Capabilities: <access denied>
	Kernel driver in use: pcieport-driver
	Kernel modules: shpchp

00:07.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 PCI to PCI bridge (PCIE port 3)
	Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
	Bus: primary=00, secondary=06, subordinate=06, sec-latency=0
	I/O behind bridge: 0000c000-0000cfff
	Memory behind bridge: f0400000-f04fffff
	Capabilities: <access denied>
	Kernel driver in use: pcieport-driver
	Kernel modules: shpchp

00:11.0 SATA controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 SATA Controller [IDE mode] (prog-if 01)
	Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device 021b
	Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 22
	I/O ports at 8420 [size=8]
	I/O ports at 8414 [size=4]
	I/O ports at 8418 [size=8]
	I/O ports at 8410 [size=4]
	I/O ports at 8400 [size=16]
	Memory at f0808000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]
	Capabilities: <access denied>
	Kernel driver in use: ahci

00:12.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB OHCI0 Controller (prog-if 10)
	Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device 021b
	Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 16
	Memory at f0604000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
	Kernel driver in use: ohci_hcd

00:12.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700 USB OHCI1 Controller (prog-if 10)
	Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device 021b
	Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 16
	Memory at f0605000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
	Kernel driver in use: ohci_hcd

00:12.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB EHCI Controller (prog-if 20)
	Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device 021b
	Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 17
	Memory at f0808400 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
	Capabilities: <access denied>
	Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd

00:13.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB OHCI0 Controller (prog-if 10)
	Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device 021b
	Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 18
	Memory at f0606000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
	Kernel driver in use: ohci_hcd

00:13.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB EHCI Controller (prog-if 20)
	Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device 021b
	Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 19
	Memory at f0808800 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
	Capabilities: <access denied>
	Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd

00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 SMBus Controller (rev 3a)
	Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device 021b
	Flags: 66MHz, medium devsel
	Capabilities: <access denied>
	Kernel driver in use: piix4_smbus
	Kernel modules: i2c-piix4

00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA)
	Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device 021b
	Flags: bus master, slow devsel, latency 64, IRQ 16
	Memory at f0600000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
	Capabilities: <access denied>
	Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel
	Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel

00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 LPC host controller
	Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device 021b
	Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 0

00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 PCI to PCI Bridge (prog-if 01)
	Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64
	Bus: primary=00, secondary=07, subordinate=07, sec-latency=64

00:14.5 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB OHCI2 Controller (prog-if 10)
	Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device 021b
	Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 18
	Memory at f0607000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
	Kernel driver in use: ohci_hcd

00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Mobile K10 [Turion X2, Athlon X2, Sempron] HyperTransport Configuration (rev 40)
	Flags: fast devsel
	Capabilities: <access denied>

00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 11h [Turion X2, Athlon X2, Sempron] Address Map
	Flags: fast devsel

00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Mobile K10 [Turion X2, Athlon X2, Sempron] DRAM Controller
	Flags: fast devsel
	Kernel modules: amd64_edac_mod

00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Mobile K10 [Turion X2, Athlon X2, Sempron] Miscellaneous Control
	Flags: fast devsel
	Capabilities: <access denied>

00:18.4 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Mobile K10 [Turion X2, Athlon X2, Sempron] Link Control
	Flags: fast devsel

01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RS780M/RS780MN [Radeon HD 3200 Graphics]
	Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device 021b
	Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 28
	Memory at d0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
	I/O ports at 9000 [size=256]
	Memory at cfdf0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
	Memory at cfe00000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M]
	Capabilities: <access denied>
	Kernel driver in use: fglrx_pci
	Kernel modules: fglrx, radeon

01:05.1 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc RS780 Azalia controller
	Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device 021b
	Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 19
	Memory at cfdec000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
	Capabilities: <access denied>
	Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel
	Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel

Thanks in advance

lupusarcanus · 12-20-2009, 12:12 PM

I have had the same problem! Very different sound/motherboard card though. But still, you're not the only one. For me it's the games and the sound recorder. Youtube videos and movies come out perfectly. Games, or sound recorder, it makes an AWFUL sound.

isolatedsh33p · 12-20-2009, 01:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by leopard

I have had the same problem! Very different sound/motherboard card though. But still, you're not the only one. For me it's the games and the sound recorder. Youtube videos and movies come out perfectly. Games, or sound recorder, it makes an AWFUL sound.

There's no problem with my sound accept the hissing sound when I'm trying to record something using the sound recorder. It's just sometimes the automute, record (audio/video) didn't work.