Bug#829642: pulseaudio 9 breaks SPDIF/iec958 and Intel HDMI audio on ASUS B85-Pro motherboard

Felipe Sateler fsateler at debian.org
Tue Jul 5 13:49:42 UTC 2016


On 5 July 2016 at 02:57, Mike Hommey <mh at glandium.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 05, 2016 at 11:21:32AM +1200, Adam Warner wrote:
>> Package: pulseaudio
>> Version: 9.0-1
>> Severity: serious
>> Justification: keep out of testing. Workaround is to downgrade to the
>> version in testing
>>
>>
>> Installation is x86-64 stock sid/unstable as of an hour ago
>> (with libwebrtc-audio-processing-0 held after downgrade to
>> pulseaudio 8.0-2+b2)
>>
>> Before pulseaudio upgrade:
>>
>> $ pacmd list-sinks | grep name:
>>       name: <alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.iec958-stereo>
>>       name: <alsa_output.pci-0000_00_03.0.hdmi-stereo>
>
> I have a similar issue, but it fixed itself after I downgraded and
> upgraded again.
>
> With pa 9.0:
> $ pacmd list-sinks | grep name:
>         name: <alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo>

Was this after a reboot?

>
> With pa 8.0:
> $ pacmd list-sinks | grep name:
>         name: <alsa_output.pci-0000_00_03.0.hdmi-stereo>
>         name: <alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo>
>
> More than that, the pacmd list-sinks output didn't have any "ports" in
> the output with pa 9.0, which prevented me from switching to headset
> instead of speakers.
>
> Now, the interesting thing is that I downgraded to 8.0, killed the
> pulseaudio daemon(s), tested that it worked as before the upgrade,
> then went back to 9.0, killed the pulseaudio daemon again, and it still
> worked. This would suggest some sort of race condition at boot time.

Could it be that the upgrade process did not include
module-pulseaudio-udev the first time?

-- 

Saludos,
Felipe Sateler



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