I own a Sound Blaster Arena Surround headset. I had it successfully working with my computer that had an Athalon 64 x2 and an ATI chipset motherboard. I recently built a new desktop that has a Phenom II x4 and an nVidia chipset. When I plug my headset in to the computer and switch to it with either the Sound Preferences or the PulseAudio volume control, I can hear sound out of it for a short time, but after that, the sound stops, and PulseAudio becomes unresponsive (applications complain they can't connect). After this, my usb mouse becomes unresponsive, and I have to use the keyboard to open a terminal and restart the computer in order to regain control. I have noticed that lsusb is unresponsive while this issue is occupying. I am uncertain how to determine what portions of what logs pertain to the problem at hand, and I will be glad to provide any additional information as needed.
Ubuntu versions:
The computer with which the headset worked was running 10.04. Originally, when I upgraded, I just moved the hard drives over, so I still had 10.04 when I first noticed the problem. Thinking the problem was caused by meerly caused by just moving the hard drives, I installed a fresh copy of 10.10 to try, but the problem still persists.
Here is some information, more will be edited in later.
lspci:
Code:
00:00.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] Memory Controller (rev a2)
00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] LPC Bridge (rev a2)
00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] SMBus (rev a1)
00:01.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] Memory Controller (rev a1)
00:01.3 Co-processor: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] Co-Processor (rev a2)
00:01.4 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] Memory Controller (rev a1)
00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] OHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev a1)
00:02.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] EHCI USB 2.0 Controller (rev a1)
00:04.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] OHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev a1)
00:04.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] EHCI USB 2.0 Controller (rev a1)
00:06.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] IDE (rev a1)
00:07.0 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP72XE/MCP72P/MCP78U/MCP78S High Definition Audio (rev a1)
00:08.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] PCI Bridge (rev a1)
00:09.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] SATA Controller (non-AHCI mode) (rev a2)
00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: nVidia Corporation MCP77 Ethernet (rev a2)
00:10.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] PCI Express Bridge (rev a1)
00:13.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] PCI Bridge (rev a1)
00:14.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] PCI Bridge (rev a1)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h Processor HyperTransport Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h Processor Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h Processor DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h Processor Miscellaneous Control
00:18.4 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h Processor Link Control
02:00.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation NF200 PCIe 2.0 switch for mainboards (rev a2)
03:00.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation NF200 PCIe 2.0 switch for mainboards (rev a2)
03:02.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation NF200 PCIe 2.0 switch for mainboards (rev a2)
04:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation Device 0e23 (rev a1)
04:00.1 Audio device: nVidia Corporation GF104 High Definition Audio Controller (rev a1)
This issue seems to be related to this forum post: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1399229
None of the suggestions in the former thread are helpful, as I am certain this headset can work with different hardware in Ubuntu.
Also, I am uncertain, but this bug may also be related: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...ux/+bug/627862
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