[GTALUG] Ubuntu Studio: Sound not working in all applications

[Russell Reiter]

Sorry to top post. I meant to say PCM channel. Still haven't had morning
coffee.

> Are you using Alsa, OSS or the Pulseaudio wrapper.  I've seen this
problem where the Alsa mixer mutes the dsp channel on reboot.
> If you are using Alsa you can try using the alsamixer to unmute the
channel and alsactl store to make the settings persistent.
>
> Hope this helps.
> Russell
>
> Sent from mobile.
>
> On Feb 19, 2016 9:17 PM, "Paul King" <sciguy at vex.net> wrote:
> >
> > I have what I must describe as a strange sound problem under Linux
Ubuntu
> > Studio 14.x. The operating system sound is dead, so is sound which
ought to
> > come out of media players like VLC. Sound also fails to work in the
browser.
> >
> > BUT, it DOES work perfectly under Audacity. I have tried to change the
system
> > settings to the same settings as Audacity, but I haven't been
successful.
> >
> > THere was touted to be a window called "Sound Preferences", but when I
clicked
> > on the speaker icon to select "sound preferences" from the dropdown,
the window
> > that came up was "System settings", which only had icons for the
printer,
> > desktop and one other thing that had nothing to do with sound that I
can't
> > recall.
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> >
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