PulseAudio

[Tyler Aviss]

Heck no. If it worked with ALSA before, it should work after.

A couple other things to check
  /etc/modprobe.d entries for ALSA (you might want to remove old
entries, purge the main ALSA packages, reinstall)
  try sound from commandline before logging in, so that you're just on
ALSA without Pulse possibly stealing the device

Some useful commands:
  aplay -l : lists soundcards that ALSA knows
  alsamixer : commandline mixer useful for configuring prior to
getting into gnome/pulse. Use "m" for mute/unmute and arrows for
volume, tab for navigation
  aplay /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav  : test sound (alsa)

On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 8:51 AM, Thomas Milne
<tbrucemilne-TcoXwbchSccMMYnvST3LeUB+6BGkLq7r at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> I'm waiting for a reply back from work with some more info/command
> output from dmesg and lspci and so on. I'll get them to also check if
> pulse is even running, didn't think of that.
>
> So you've never had to go the OSS route?
>
> On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 11:44 AM, Tyler Aviss <tjaviss-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>> 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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