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[William Spears <773232@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Having the same problem with Ubuntu 11.04, as of Nov 4, 2011. But, until
today I've never had a problem. Interestingly, the small icon on my
toolbar changed today also. Was there an update that has broken things?
In fact, it causes *everything* to respond very very slowly...

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Title:
  gnome-volume-control freezes with "Waiting for sound system to
  respond"

Status in “gnome-media” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: gnome-media

  Cannot change the volume, clicking on "Sound Preferences..." or
  running gnome-volume-control from the command line both result in a
  "Waiting for sound system to respond" window.  The program will wait
  forever and never continue beyond this point.

  Playing sounds from the command line works fine with the following example:
  $ aplay /usr/share/sounds/purple/alert.wav

  And alsamixer works from the command line.

  Some more information:

  # dmidecode | grep Product
  	Product Name: iMac9,1
  	Product Name: Mac-F2218FA9

  # lspci | grep Audio
  00:08.0 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP79 High Definition Audio (rev b1)

  # aplay -l
  **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
  card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 0: ALC889A Analog [ALC889A Analog]
    Subdevices: 1/1
    Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
  card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 1: ALC889A Digital [ALC889A Digital]
    Subdevices: 1/1
    Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

  # uname -a
  Linux canis 2.6.38-8-generic #42-Ubuntu SMP Mon Apr 11 03:31:24 UTC 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

  For this particular sound card, several reports have been seen where users have had to add a specific options command to /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf.  Each of the following options have been tried in turn:
  options snd-hda-intel model=auto
  options snd-hda-intel model=mb5
  options snd-hda-intel model=mbp5
  options snd-hda-intel model=mbp3
  options snd-hda-intel model=mac24
  options snd-hda-intel model=imac24

  (The only result of the above module options have been to switch audio
  output from headphones to speakers, or to break sound all together.)

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
  Package: gnome-media 2.32.0-0ubuntu7
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
  Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia wl
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Fri Apr 29 08:43:11 2011
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Server 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Beta amd64+mac (20110411.2)
  ProcEnviron:
   SHELL=/bin/bash
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   LANGUAGE=en_US:en
  SourcePackage: gnome-media
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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