Sound configuration broken in 12.10?

[Guest]

Folks;

did an upgrade 12.04 -> 12.10 a few days ago, just to figure out my sound configuration has been messed up in a somewhat peculiar way. Running a Toshiba Tecra notebook with built-in Intel sound chip, so far things just worked out of the box. In 12.10, standard boot, all I see is "Dummy" sound hardware that doesn't do anything. No way getting it configured, and as soon as I enter Phonon settings, the system complains about a bunch of devices that have been "removed" and asks me whether I want to remove them from the configuration. Of course I don't want to. So far, I can manually sort things out by doing a "sudo modprobe snd_hda_intel" to load the "right" sound driver and get things back to normal, but that's a bit inconvenient - and fails at the moment, trying to get a Logitech H530 headset to work for a video conference - so far, just plugging in that thing used to work. Right now, it's "there" (dmesg/lsusb), but it doesn't appear anywhere and can't be used AFAICT. Gonna search the "right" driver module for that. but generally, this is a step backward. Not sure whether this is a Kubuntu issue or rather an issue related to the core system... it still is a bit annoying.

Ideas, workarounds, help, anyone?
TIA and all the best,
Kristian

[whatthefunk]

I had a similar problem and there seem to be quite a few people with the same thing happening on Ubuntu forums, so Im guessing its a Ubuntu thing. I fixed mine by purging pulseaudio.

[SteveRiley]

I'm curious if reinstalling PulseAudio would bring the problem back, or if a simple purge-reinstall routine eliminates the gremlins...

[kdeputer]

I'd like to help him but I gotta get to bed. I have tried a live DVD of Kubuntu 12.10 to try out my Logitech USB H530 headset. It's a ClearChat model...very common and same one as him, AFAIK. I can boot it up in the morning and try it again. I posted on the only thing I had trouble with, adjusting the sound notifications in Playback Stream.

What I recall, the main thing you need to change is the outputs to Logitech USB (analog stereo output) and I also moved to that setting in preferred devices.

I noticed some setting for "Dummy" sound hardware but I forget which one you'd want. Not that one, though.

[PocketHercules]

Kristian - Were you able to fix this? I just installed 12.10 and experiencing the same issue.

[kdeputer]

Kristian - Were you able to fix this? I just installed 12.10 and experiencing the same issue.

I only see 'Dummy module output' if you go to a media player's 'Preferences' setting.

You want it set to 'Default.' Well, I have the setting there and sound works.

It sounds like the OP has some problem with the driver.

It's possible that you have two conflicting audio drivers so maybe make sure that only one is enabled. If it's just one audio driver, make sure that is being used and that the 'preferred' sound card is set at the top of the options. At least, if you have a usb headset, that is what allowed it to work for me. 'Shouldn't have to remove anything. It works with Pulse or without pulse but if you use skype, I think pulse is better being installed.

Some people claim you don't need it.

I would configure the settings and set the preferences to be 'analog stereo' output and analog mono input. You do this at System Settings - Multimedia - Phonon (Device Preference)

For Audio Hardware Setup: Soundcard - select the hardware you want to be used. Profile: Analog Stereo Output and Analog Mono Input (this is for USB headsets*) -> Analog Stereo Output for speakers
Sound Device: Playback
Connector: Speakers