Hopefully you can help me out with my sound problems. My sound (audio output) suddenly stops working in the middle of listening to a podcast for example, or watching a video. I am running Sarah 18 Cinnamon 64 bit.
I have not accidentally muted the sound, in fact this usually happens when I'm not even using the computer except for listening to something whilst it sits on my desk. I have tried to troubleshoot this and looked through forum posts to no avail. The first time I troubleshot it when I ran
pactl list sinks
the Sink said SUSPENDED, but running the command again produces the following:Code: Select all
~ $ pactl list sinks
Sink #0
State: RUNNING
Name: alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo
Description: Built-in Audio Analogue Stereo
Driver: module-alsa-card.c
Sample Specification: s16le 2ch 44100Hz
Channel Map: front-left,front-right
Owner Module: 6
Mute: no
Volume: front-left: 59228 / 90% / -2.64 dB, front-right: 59228 / 90% / -2.64 dB
balance 0.00
Base Volume: 65536 / 100% / 0.00 dB
Monitor Source: alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo.monitor
Latency: 16563 usec, configured 20000 usec
Flags: HARDWARE HW_MUTE_CTRL HW_VOLUME_CTRL DECIBEL_VOLUME LATENCY
Properties:
alsa.resolution_bits = "16"
device.api = "alsa"
device.class = "sound"
alsa.class = "generic"
alsa.subclass = "generic-mix"
alsa.name = "CX20585 Analog"
alsa.id = "CX20585 Analog"
alsa.subdevice = "0"
alsa.subdevice_name = "subdevice #0"
alsa.device = "0"
alsa.card = "0"
alsa.card_name = "HDA Intel MID"
alsa.long_card_name = "HDA Intel MID at 0xf2520000 irq 28"
alsa.driver_name = "snd_hda_intel"
device.bus_path = "pci-0000:00:1b.0"
sysfs.path = "/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/sound/card0"
device.bus = "pci"
device.vendor.id = "8086"
device.vendor.name = "Intel Corporation"
device.product.id = "3b56"
device.product.name = "5 Series/3400 Series Chipset High Definition Audio"
device.form_factor = "internal"
device.string = "front:0"
device.buffering.buffer_size = "65536"
device.buffering.fragment_size = "32768"
device.access_mode = "mmap+timer"
device.profile.name = "analog-stereo"
device.profile.description = "Analogue Stereo"
device.description = "Built-in Audio Analogue Stereo"
alsa.mixer_name = "Conexant CX20585"
alsa.components = "HDA:14f15069,17aa2155,00100302 HDA:80862804,17aa21b5,00100000"
module-udev-detect.discovered = "1"
device.icon_name = "audio-card-pci"
Ports:
analog-output-speaker: Speakers (priority: 10000)
analog-output-headphones: Headphones (priority: 9000, not available)
Active Port: analog-output-speaker
Formats:
pcm
Any insights much appreciated! Cheers