Sound on ALC269 randomly stopping

[JustSomebody]

Having the normal (in my case) audio sounds, I'm obviously a new user to PCLinuxOS and Linux is general from Linux Mint.

My audio seems to works generally however sometimes I get a notification that it has stopped working. (ALC269 Analog - Backend Xine) and it's falling back onto my HD-Audio General (HDMI 0)

So far a restart has fixed this issue but I'd like a solid fix, I've heard sometimes drivers get blacklisted but I'm not familiar with that.

Just did a fresh install and sound and everything worked right out of the box, didn't configure anything.

I get this under hardware information for sound/Kmix:

Sound drivers supported: PulseAudio + ALSA + OSS
Sound drivers used: ALSA

[Just17]

The Phonon Xine backend is being deprecated I believe .....  you might try changing to VLC or Gstreamer backends ......  KDE CC  -  Hardware  -  Multimedia  -  Phonon ......... Backend tab

[JustSomebody]

I'll try that and see how it goes.

Only have Xine and VLC as options.

Report if/when I get the problem arising again.

[JustSomebody]

The Phonon Xine backend is being deprecated I believe .....  you might try changing to VLC or Gstreamer backends ......  KDE CC  -  Hardware  -  Multimedia  -  Phonon ......... Backend tab

Nope started up having problems again. Odd though I heard my logon sound then no audio from Youtube, etc.

[Just17]

If you don't use your HDMI audio you can disable it in Pulse Volume Control.

Then when you fail to get some audio check where it is being sent -- again through PAC.

[JustSomebody]

Back to no sound whatever so, this time a reboot didn't even seem to work.

Switched to VLC for the backend as suggested but that was short lived.

After clicking on Phonon in Multimedia I've tried testing all of the 'drivers'? listed and not a single one worked.

HDA Intel ALC269 Analog

HD Audio Generic

HD Audio Generic (Audio Output)

Those are the first three in order and then it lists a bunch of small ones, alsa, oss, dummy, etc.

[Just17]

Did any of them appear in the Playback tab of PAV when you tested?

[JustSomebody]

Did any of them appear in the Playback tab of PAV when you tested?

PAV? I'm going to assume that is in some way Pulse Audio? Searching through Synaptic I don't have the package 'pulseaudio' installed.

[Just17]

There is a meta package called    task-   for Pulse Audio if you wish to install it, and also a post by Tex to check that it is set up correctly.

Sorry, thought you were using Pulse  hence the last two posts.

[JustSomebody]

There is a meta package called    task-   for Pulse Audio if you wish to install it, and also a post by Tex to check that it is set up correctly.

Sorry, thought you were using Pulse  hence the last two posts.

No just the normal installation. Didn't add anything when it came to sound. It worked fine and then started giving me problems.