Florian, Thank you for reporting this bug to Ubuntu.
Ubuntu 10.10 (maverick) reached end-of-life on April 10, 2012. And Ubuntu 8.04 (hardy) reached end-of-life on May 12, 2011. See this document for currently supported Ubuntu releases: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases Please upgrade to the latest version and re-test. ** Changed in: pulseaudio (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Incomplete ** Changed in: pulseaudio (Ubuntu Lucid) Assignee: Daniel T Chen (crimsun) => (unassigned) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to alsa-lib in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/178442 Title: Pulseaudio fails to initialize ICE1712 chipsets Status in alsa-lib package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in pulseaudio package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Status in alsa-lib source package in Lucid: Won't Fix Status in pulseaudio source package in Lucid: Won't Fix Bug description: Binary package hint: pulseaudio I have a problem that makes pulseaudio unusable for me. I noticed the only device listed by pulseaudio is my webcam (as an input device obviously), so I tried starting pulseaudio from the command line to see what was happening. This resulted in: "ALSA lib confmisc.c:1286:(snd_func_refer) Unable to find definition 'cards.ICE1712.pcm.surround71.0:CARD=0' ALSA lib conf.c:3510:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer returned error: No such file or directory ALSA lib conf.c:3982:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such file or directory ALSA lib pcm.c:2145:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM surround71:0 W: alsa-util.c: Device hw:0 doesn't support 2 channels, changed to 10. W: alsa-util.c: Device hw:0 doesn't support sample format s16le, changed to s32le. W: alsa-util.c: Cannot find fallback mixer control "PCM". E: module-alsa-sink.c: Failed to create sink object E: module.c: Failed to load module "module-alsa-sink" (argument: "device_id=0 sink_name=alsa_output.pci_1412_1712_sound_card_0_alsa_playback_0"): initialization failed.ALSA lib confmisc.c:1286:(snd_func_refer) Unable to find definition 'cards.ICE1712.pcm.surround71.0:CARD=0' ALSA lib conf.c:3510:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer returned error: No such file or directory ALSA lib conf.c:3982:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such file or directory ALSA lib pcm.c:2145:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM surround71:0 W: alsa-util.c: Device hw:0 doesn't support 2 channels, changed to 12. W: alsa-util.c: Device hw:0 doesn't support sample format s16le, changed to s32le. W: alsa-util.c: Cannot find fallback mixer control "Mic". E: module-alsa-source.c: Failed to create source object E: module.c: Failed to load module "module-alsa-source" (argument: "device_id=0 source_name=alsa_input.pci_1412_1712_sound_card_0_alsa_capture_0"): initialization failed." This is an up to date Hardy installation. Soundcard is a M-Audio Audiophile 2496. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/alsa-lib/+bug/178442/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp