Bug#1032255: pulseaudio: sound keeps dying (on Tiger Lake)

[Dave Love]

Package: pulseaudio
Severity: serious
X-Debbugs-Cc: none, Dave Love <dave.love at manchester.ac.uk>

I kept losing sound and had to restart applications.  In contrast to
#1022143, removing pipewire packages didn't help, but after replacing
pulseaudio with pipewire, things are working fine.  (I'm using the
bullseye-backports version, but I don't know if that's necessary.)

This is probably hardware-related, since I found it after replacing a
Thinkpad with a "HP EliteBook 840 G8 Notebook PC (19X36AV)" which has a
"Tiger Lake-LP Smart Sound Technology Audio Controller".  I can't see
any similar reports in a web search, though.

Sorry I can't report the actual package versions now, but recent, and
pulseaudio doesn't seems to have changed recently, and perhaps the
solution helps others.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 11.6
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-21-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled