Sound stopped working....

[Michael Havens]

Well, I thought I was going to turn my computer off for th night but  45
minutes I turned it back on and everything  was fine.

now on to learning xsane!


On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 12:07 AM, Michael Butash <michael at butash.net> wrote:

> Do you even see anything with lspci or lsusb of your soundcard?  What kind
> of sound is it?
>
> Updating kernel breaks things I've found (newish intel z99 mobo did in
> earlier kernels), but unless hardware changed, shouldn't unless something
> just fried or you broke it to udev.
>
> Look at your dmesg on boot, and run "alsamixer", if neither see your
> sound, it fried, isn't getting probed by udev, or some odd combination of
> that and bug.  If also sees it, pulseaudio should too.  Everything (apps)
> talks to pulse now as a default sink to userland, under it is alsa, then
> your sound.
>
> If alsa sees your sound, check pulseaudo.  Install pavucontrol and examine
> your devices as looking as they should.  Make sure your application in
> there is steering to the right output sink.
>
> It's like hooking up a stereo receiver or anything else, output to input,
> output to input...
>
> -mb
>
>
>
>
> On 12/22/2015 08:46 PM, Michael Havens wrote:
>
> how should I proceed?
>
> On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 10:45 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> well... I decided to see if it would get to the point where it asks if
>> you want to continue.... but ut didn't ask..... it just reinstalled alsa.
>> ALAS.... it did not help any..... (how'd you like that play on words?)
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 10:37 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> sudo apt-get install --reinstall alsa
>>>
>>> ????????????????????
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>>
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