PulseAudio

[Tyler Aviss]

I found a couple things when updating to karmic on various machines
that could case this:
  - Gnome/pulse found a different "default" soundcard than what they should have
  - PA set the volume to nothing in the sound panel mixer, or turned on mute
  - Wrong "profile" in the hardware settings of the sound prefs

If you have a .asoundrc file in your homedir you may need to nuke that too

Are you seeing your soundcard? Is the pulseaudio daemon loading?

On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 8:23 AM, Thomas Milne
<tbrucemilne-TcoXwbchSccMMYnvST3LeUB+6BGkLq7r at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Ha! So it finally got to me. So far on my home machine it's been no
> problem, so I've been wondering why everyone hates Pulse so much.
>
> Until now. At work we upgraded all the machines to Karmic Koala and
> now a lot of them have no sound. If you saw how we do our jobs, you
> would understand what a horrifying thing this is ;)
>
> Anyhow, I remember some threads on here a while ago about fixing this
> by using good 'ol OSS, but as these are work computers I thought I
> would ask before I start trying some of the solutions. Is this really
> the tried and true method?
>
> I also found this link. Anyone else solve it like this?
>
> http://swiss.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1395089
>
> Thanks!
>
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