Fedora 12 and Pulse

[Jean Figarella]

Every now and then I notice that my system is sluggish and that no sound is being played. Looking at /var/log/messages I noticed these kind of messages:
Nov  4 08:56:41 roadwarrior rtkit-daemon[1500]: Sucessfully made thread 1923 of process 1922 (/usr/bin/pulseaudio) owned by '500' RT at priority 5.                                
Nov  4 08:56:41 roadwarrior rtkit-daemon[1500]: Sucessfully made thread 1924 of process 1922 (/usr/bin/pulseaudio) owned by '500' RT at priority 5.                                
Nov  4 08:56:41 roadwarrior pulseaudio[1922]: alsa-mixer.c: Your kernel driver is broken: it reports a volume range from 20.00 dB to 20.00 dB which makes no sense.                
Nov  4 08:56:41 roadwarrior pulseaudio[1922]: alsa-mixer.c: Your kernel driver is broken: it reports a volume range from 20.00 dB to 20.00 dB which makes no sense.                
Nov  4 08:56:41 roadwarrior pulseaudio[1922]: alsa-mixer.c: Your kernel driver is broken: it reports a volume range from 20.00 dB to 20.00 dB which makes no sense.                
Nov  4 08:56:41 roadwarrior pulseaudio[1922]: alsa-mixer.c: Your kernel driver is broken: it reports a volume range from 20.00 dB to 20.00 dB which makes no sense.                
Nov  4 08:56:41 roadwarrior pulseaudio[1922]: alsa-mixer.c: Your kernel driver is broken: it reports a volume range from 20.00 dB to 20.00 dB which makes no sense.                
Nov  4 08:56:41 roadwarrior pulseaudio[1922]: alsa-mixer.c: Your kernel driver is broken: it reports a volume range from 20.00 dB to 20.00 dB which makes no sense.                
Nov  4 08:56:41 roadwarrior pulseaudio[1922]: alsa-mixer.c: Your kernel driver is broken: it reports a volume range from 20.00 dB to 20.00 dB which makes no sense.                
Nov  4 08:56:41 roadwarrior rtkit-daemon[1500]: Sucessfully made thread 1925 of process 1922 (/usr/bin/pulseaudio) owned by '500' RT at priority 5.                                
Nov  4 09:13:40 roadwarrior pulseaudio[1922]: ratelimit.c: 264 events suppressed                                                                                                   
Nov  4 09:44:09 roadwarrior pulseaudio[1922]: ratelimit.c: 264 events suppressed                                                                                                   
Nov  4 09:45:13 roadwarrior pulseaudio[1922]: ratelimit.c: 206 events suppressed                                                                                                   
Nov  4 10:35:42 roadwarrior pulseaudio[1922]: ratelimit.c: 193 events suppressed                                                                                                   
Nov  4 10:36:00 roadwarrior pulseaudio[1922]: ratelimit.c: 264 events suppressed       


To get everything back to normal I just have to kill pulse and re-start it. Any ideas?

Thanks,
Jean Figarella
jean...@gmail.com

[Paul W. Frields]

On Wed, Nov 04, 2009 at 02:37:02PM -0500, Jean Figarella wrote:
> Every now and then I notice that my system is sluggish and that no sound
> is being played. Looking at /var/log/messages I noticed these kind of
> messages:

> Nov� 4 08:56:41 roadwarrior pulseaudio[1922]: alsa-mixer.c: Your kernel

> driver is broken: it reports a volume range from 20.00 dB to 20.00 dB

> which makes no sense.����������������
[...snip...]

That looks like a driver problem, alright. What's your sound card? I
think this will tell you:

lspci -nn | grep -i '\(audio\|sound\)'

> To get everything back to normal I just have to kill pulse and re-start
> it. Any ideas?

--
Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/
gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717
http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/
irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug

[Jean Figarella]

Paul,
Thanks for the quick response. Here it is.


00:1b.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller [8086:27d8] (rev 01)

And also attached the output from alsa-info.

I'm definitely taking a closer look when I get home. I'm just swamped at work, but though that someone might seen this before.

Thanks,
Jean Figarella
jean...@gmail.com