# Qubes and PulseAudio bug

*https://mbrasile.com/qubes-and-pulseaudio-bug.html · 2016-08-28 · Qubes*

After updating dom0 I experienced different malfunctions related to how my HP zBook 14" works with Qubes. The most annoying were:

- no correct functioning of the Fn keys

- audio missing at all

- shutting down not working

- random freezing of qubes-manager and other tools.

I was thinking I was in the middle of a transition between Qubes 3.0 and 3.2.

But I was wrong! There was a **single bug** related to the audio server used in Qubes (PulseAudio) that was unable to find and drive the audio card.

The solution is easy, the good things happend after you reboot:

as root, in dom0 create **/etc/modprobe.d/my-alsa.conf** with this line

```
options snd-hda-intel enable=0,1,0
```

Thanks to **tom229** [here](https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1460933#p1460933).

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