I have an HP Envy 3040nr: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834158219 It has Dre "Beats" speaker. I do not know if they are the cause of the issue, but this computer suffer sever hang ups after log in. Gnome-shell gdm cannot activate on this computer unless I use a workaround. This happens with Arch, Ubuntu, Mint, and Fedora. My workaround is to add "blacklist snd-usb-audio" to /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf Without using this workaround, the computer borders on unsuable. The sound applets refuse to even work. I was unsure under which category to put this. My OS: Arch Linux x64
This bug still exists, as of 1.1 (the 1.1-9.fc17 package from Fedora 17) on kernel 3.6.8-2, but I suspect it is an alsa bug, rather than pulseaudio. The behavior is accompanied by this kernel error: ALSA sound/usb/mixer.c:415 cannot get current value for control 2 ch 1: err = -22 Which happens every couple of seconds.
Upgrading to pulseaudio 2.1 does not resolve the issue.
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