Hello, I have the same issue with my HP Envy 15. The sound card in question is an HP Wireless Audio card that only works with HP-branded wireless speakers, so playing to the card produces no output whatsoever, but does hang whatever process tries to access it. I doubt that many people ever use this feature, so unless someone invests the time to get it working I'd like a way to just ignore it completely. I've blacklisted the snd-usb-audio module for now, but I have a USB sound card and a USB MIDI controller that I'd like to be able to use.

Here's the output of "lsusb -vd 0424:b832" (apologies for length): Bus 004 Device 004: ID 0424:b832 Standard Microsystems Corp. Device Descriptor: bLength 18 bDescriptorType 1 bcdUSB 2.00 bDeviceClass 0 (Defined at Interface level) bDeviceSubClass 0 bDeviceProtocol 0 bMaxPacketSize0 64 idVendor 0x0424 Standard Microsystems Corp. idProduct 0xb832 bcdDevice 75.28 iManufacturer 1 iProduct 2 iSerial 0 bNumConfigurations 1 Configuration Descriptor: bLength 9 bDescriptorType 2 wTotalLength 225 bNumInterfaces 4 bConfigurationValue 1 iConfiguration 0 bmAttributes 0x80 (Bus Powered) MaxPower 500mA Interface Descriptor: bLength 9 bDescriptorType 4 bInterfaceNumber 0 bAlternateSetting 0 bNumEndpoints 0 bInterfaceClass 1 Audio bInterfaceSubClass 1 Control Device bInterfaceProtocol 0 iInterface 3 AudioControl Interface Descriptor: bLength 10 bDescriptorType 36 bDescriptorSubtype 1 (HEADER) bcdADC 1.00 wTotalLength 72 bInCollection 2 baInterfaceNr( 0) 1 baInterfaceNr( 1) 2 AudioControl Interface Descriptor: bLength 12 bDescriptorType 36 bDescriptorSubtype 2 (INPUT_TERMINAL) bTerminalID 1 wTerminalType 0x0101 USB Streaming bAssocTerminal 0 bNrChannels 2 wChannelConfig 0x0003 Left Front (L) Right Front (R) iChannelNames 0 iTerminal 0 AudioControl Interface Descriptor: bLength 12 bDescriptorType 36 bDescriptorSubtype 2 (INPUT_TERMINAL) bTerminalID 2 wTerminalType 0x0402 Headset bAssocTerminal 0 bNrChannels 2 wChannelConfig 0x0003 Left Front (L) Right Front (R) iChannelNames 0 iTerminal 0 AudioControl Interface Descriptor: bLength 9 bDescriptorType 36 bDescriptorSubtype 3 (OUTPUT_TERMINAL) bTerminalID 6 wTerminalType 0x0301 Speaker bAssocTerminal 0 bSourceID 11 iTerminal 0 AudioControl Interface Descriptor: bLength 9 bDescriptorType 36 bDescriptorSubtype 3 (OUTPUT_TERMINAL) bTerminalID 7 wTerminalType 0x0101 USB Streaming bAssocTerminal 0 bSourceID 12 iTerminal 0 AudioControl Interface Descriptor: bLength 10 bDescriptorType 36 bDescriptorSubtype 6 (FEATURE_UNIT) bUnitID 11 bSourceID 1 bControlSize 1 bmaControls( 0) 0x01 Mute Control bmaControls( 1) 0x02 Volume Control bmaControls( 2) 0x02 Volume Control iFeature 0 AudioControl Interface Descriptor: bLength 10 bDescriptorType 36 bDescriptorSubtype 6 (FEATURE_UNIT) bUnitID 12 bSourceID 2 bControlSize 1 bmaControls( 0) 0x01 Mute Control bmaControls( 1) 0x02 Volume Control bmaControls( 2) 0x02 Volume Control iFeature 0 Interface Descriptor: bLength 9 bDescriptorType 4 bInterfaceNumber 1 bAlternateSetting 0 bNumEndpoints 0 bInterfaceClass 1 Audio bInterfaceSubClass 2 Streaming bInterfaceProtocol 0 iInterface 0 Interface Descriptor: bLength 9 bDescriptorType 4 bInterfaceNumber 1 bAlternateSetting 1 bNumEndpoints 1 bInterfaceClass 1 Audio bInterfaceSubClass 2 Streaming bInterfaceProtocol 0 iInterface 0 AudioStreaming Interface Descriptor: bLength 7 bDescriptorType 36 bDescriptorSubtype 1 (AS_GENERAL) bTerminalLink 1 bDelay 0 frames wFormatTag 1 PCM AudioStreaming Interface Descriptor: bLength 14 bDescriptorType 36 bDescriptorSubtype 2 (FORMAT_TYPE) bFormatType 1 (FORMAT_TYPE_I) bNrChannels 2 bSubframeSize 2 bBitResolution 16 bSamFreqType 2 Discrete tSamFreq[ 0] 44100 tSamFreq[ 1] 48000 Endpoint Descriptor: bLength 9 bDescriptorType 5 bEndpointAddress 0x01 EP 1 OUT bmAttributes 13 Transfer Type Isochronous Synch Type Synchronous Usage Type Data wMaxPacketSize 0x0200 1x 512 bytes bInterval 4 bRefresh 0 bSynchAddress 0 AudioControl Endpoint Descriptor: bLength 7 bDescriptorType 37 bDescriptorSubtype 1 (EP_GENERAL) bmAttributes 0x01 Sampling Frequency bLockDelayUnits 1 Milliseconds wLockDelay 0 Milliseconds Interface Descriptor: bLength 9 bDescriptorType 4 bInterfaceNumber 2 bAlternateSetting 0 bNumEndpoints 0 bInterfaceClass 1 Audio bInterfaceSubClass 2 Streaming bInterfaceProtocol 0 iInterface 0 Interface Descriptor: bLength 9 bDescriptorType 4 bInterfaceNumber 2 bAlternateSetting 1 bNumEndpoints 1 bInterfaceClass 1 Audio bInterfaceSubClass 2 Streaming bInterfaceProtocol 0 iInterface 0 AudioStreaming Interface Descriptor: bLength 7 bDescriptorType 36 bDescriptorSubtype 1 (AS_GENERAL) bTerminalLink 7 bDelay 1 frames wFormatTag 1 PCM AudioStreaming Interface Descriptor: bLength 14 bDescriptorType 36 bDescriptorSubtype 2 (FORMAT_TYPE) bFormatType 1 (FORMAT_TYPE_I) bNrChannels 2 bSubframeSize 2 bBitResolution 16 bSamFreqType 2 Discrete tSamFreq[ 0] 48000 tSamFreq[ 1] 48000 Endpoint Descriptor: bLength 9 bDescriptorType 5 bEndpointAddress 0x82 EP 2 IN bmAttributes 13 Transfer Type Isochronous Synch Type Synchronous Usage Type Data wMaxPacketSize 0x0200 1x 512 bytes bInterval 4 bRefresh 0 bSynchAddress 0 AudioControl Endpoint Descriptor: bLength 7 bDescriptorType 37 bDescriptorSubtype 1 (EP_GENERAL) bmAttributes 0x00 bLockDelayUnits 1 Milliseconds wLockDelay 0 Milliseconds Interface Descriptor: bLength 9 bDescriptorType 4 bInterfaceNumber 3 bAlternateSetting 0 bNumEndpoints 1 bInterfaceClass 3 Human Interface Device bInterfaceSubClass 0 No Subclass bInterfaceProtocol 0 None iInterface 0 HID Device Descriptor: bLength 9 bDescriptorType 33 bcdHID 1.10 bCountryCode 0 Not supported bNumDescriptors 1 bDescriptorType 34 Report wDescriptorLength 74 Report Descriptors: ** UNAVAILABLE ** Endpoint Descriptor: bLength 7 bDescriptorType 5 bEndpointAddress 0x8a EP 10 IN bmAttributes 3 Transfer Type Interrupt Synch Type None Usage Type Data wMaxPacketSize 0x0008 1x 8 bytes bInterval 10 Device Status: 0x060a (Bus Powered) Remote Wakeup Enabled

On Thu, 6 Dec 2012, Joe Cooper wrote:

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On most HP Envy laptops the snd-usb-audio module causes the system to become unresponsive and Gnome Shell 3 to crash. This effects every kernel I've tried from 3.3.4 on up to 3.7rc8. It also produces these errors on the console:

ALSA sound/usb/mixer.c:415 cannot get current value for control 2 ch 1: err = -22

ALSA sound/usb/clock.c:228 3:1:1: cannot set freq 44100 to ep 0x1

Blacklisting this module allows the system to function, but with most of its speakers not working. It also prevents use of other USB audio devices, making multitrack recording impossible.

I have a ticket about it in the Fedora bug tracker, but was referred to alsa-devel. That ticket links to other discussions of this bug, as well. Here's that ticket: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=884368

alsa-info is here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=658989

Please let me know if you need further details, or if there's anything else I can do to help troubleshoot this.

Hi Joe,

I can try to help.

Do you get any sound output at all (even if it stutters or sounds wrong)?

Can you please send the output of "lsusb -v -d 0424:b832"? I think I can work out a patch for you to skip this device, so you can use other audio usb devices until this gets proper support.

Cheers, Eldad