No sound right after watching videos / using voice IP programs

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Dear all,

I have a very annoying sound problem on my computer that I'm unable to solve. I asked in multiple forums but I never found the solution.

I had the same issue in two distributions, first in Ubuntu and now in Fedora.

My computer used to work fine with Ubuntu, but after a system upgrade the sound stopped working. I moved to Fedora 21 because I couldn't find a solution and, surprise, I had the same issues.

The problem is that the sound of my Fedora mutes some minutes after using voice IP (Skype for instance) or watching videos via my browser (Firefox or Chrome). The time with both sound and application working varies.

If I reboot, I have sound again. A Skype conversation stops the sound, watching youtube stops the sound. However, the microphone continues working.

A secondary effect of this problem is that once the sound is muted, the browser videos (from YouTube for instance) are not showing well. They are usually shown in slow-motion (not always).

I tried multiple things. alsamixer (automute is disable) and pavucontrol settings are the same with and without the system muted. Killing pulseaudio and restarting pulseaudio doesn't work. Re-installing alsa doesn't work either.

With the sound muted:

- it's only pulseaudio using the sound device.

fuser -v /dev/snd/*
                     USER        PID ACCESS COMMAND
/dev/snd/controlC0:  ******  19002 F.... pulseaudio

- aplay seems to play a wav sample but without output sound

aplay Yamaha-TG100-Whistle-C5.wav
Playing WAVE 'Yamaha-TG100-Whistle-C5.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 44100 Hz, Stereo
underrun!!! (at least 1054.052 ms long)
underrun!!! (at least 1073.542 ms long)

- I have correctly set the default fragment number and buffer size in PulseAudio.

- I have removed the alsa-plugins-pulseaudio to discard the pulseaudio responsability, and I still had the same sound crash. So I guess it's alsa who is responsible (?)

- I have also tried using alternative desktops (I'm using gnome3) like xfce or cinnamon but it didn't work. It happened the same.

I have my fedora 21, with kernel 4.1.13-100.fc21.x86_64, my video card is NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT (using free drivers) and following I give you details of my sound system.

/sbin/lsmod | grep snd

snd_hda_codec_realtek    90112  0
snd_hda_codec_generic    73728  2 snd_hda_codec_realtek
snd_hda_intel          32768  4
snd_hda_controller     32768  1 snd_hda_intel
snd_hda_codec         110592  4         snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_codec_generic,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_controller
snd_hda_core           36864  4     snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_codec_generic,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_controller
snd_hwdep              16384  1 snd_hda_codec
snd_seq                69632  0
snd_seq_device         16384  1 snd_seq
snd_pcm               118784  3     snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_controller
snd_timer              32768  2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd                    81920  17             snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hwdep,snd_timer,snd_pcm,snd_seq,snd_hda_codec_generic,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel,snd_seq_device
soundcore              16384  1 snd

lspci | grep Audio

00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset High Definition Audio (rev 05)
Hardware devices:

aplay -l

**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: MID [HDA Intel MID], device 0: ID 889 Analog [ID 889 Analog]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: MID [HDA Intel MID], device 1: ID 889 Digital [ID 889 Digital]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

modinfo snd-hda-intel

filename:       /lib/modules/4.1.13-100.fc21.x86_64/kernel/sound/pci/hda/snd-hda-intel.ko.xz
description:    Intel HDA driver
license:        GPL
depends:        snd-hda-controller,snd-hda-codec,snd-pcm,snd
intree:         Y
vermagic:       4.1.13-100.fc21.x86_64 SMP mod_unload
signer:         Fedora kernel signing key
sig_key:        F3:54:63:EF:F6:27:ED:52:16:79:72:BC:8F:3C:71:2E:D1:C9:E4:F0
sig_hashalgo:   sha256
parm:           index:Index value for Intel HD audio interface. (array of int)
parm:           id:ID string for Intel HD audio interface. (array of charp)
parm:           enable:Enable Intel HD audio interface. (array of bool)
parm:           model:Use the given board model. (array of charp)
parm:           position_fix:DMA pointer read method.(-1 = system    default, 0 = auto, 1 = LPIB, 2 = POSBUF, 3 = VIACOMBO, 4 = COMBO). (array of int)
parm:           bdl_pos_adj:BDL position adjustment offset. (array of int)
parm:           probe_mask:Bitmask to probe codecs (default = -1). (array of int)
parm:           probe_only:Only probing and no codec initialization. (array of int)
parm:           jackpoll_ms:Ms between polling for jack events (default = 0, using unsol events only) (array of int)
parm:           single_cmd:Use single command to communicate with codecs (for debugging only). (bool)
parm:           enable_msi:Enable Message Signaled Interrupt (MSI) (bint)
parm:           patch:Patch file for Intel HD audio interface. (array of charp)
parm:           beep_mode:Select HDA Beep registration mode (0=off, 1=on) (default=1). (array of bool)
parm:           power_save:Automatic power-saving timeout (in second, 0 = disable). (xint)
parm:           power_save_controller:Reset controller in power save mode. (bool)
parm:           align_buffer_size:Force buffer and period sizes to be multiple of 128 bytes. (bint)
parm:           snoop:Enable/disable snooping (bint)

I would like to try to set a particular model for my sound driver in /etc/modprobe.d/sound.conf. But, I don't find anything for the ID of my sound device obtain from alsa-info.sh (Subsystem: 1462:7586)

Using a generic options snd_hda_intel model doesn't seem to work.

Thanks for any help you can provide me.

Cheers,
-- 
Carlos
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