Sound dead after upgrade

[John L Vifian]

On Sunday 01 November 2009 7:42:20 pm Kevin B. O'Brien wrote:
> This particular upgrade has caused me no end of problems with sound on 
> every system I upgraded. Some of them I was able to fix, but one that is 
> getting me right now concerns no sound in any of my movies (mpg, avi, 
> etc.). I used to have sound there, but the upgrade seems to have 
> convinced the system that none of my sound devices exist. Any idea where 
> I can start to resolve this one?

I had the same problem and I removed pulseaudio and it seems to be working 
now.  Try:  sudo apt-get remove pulseaudio

John L Vifian
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