Lost Audio since 4.4 upgrade

[Knapp]

On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 9:04 AM, nepal <nepal.roade at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi List,
>
> Apart from other problems some of which I have fixed following the
> upgrade last night to kde4.4, I have now lost sound output. No sound
> from any audio player and no sound with YouTube either. I am on 64bit
> Karmic (9.10) with all updates.
>
> Following the update I had similar problems to those already
> documented with loss of the plasma desktop or workspace or .... This I
> fixed by running the recover option from the grub menu using dpkg. This
> worked and returned my desktop access.
>
> For sound, my settings were using the Xine backend and that remains
> so, but without any sound now. I also do not have the little icon in
> the system tray that looked like a hifi speaker (mixer control?) and
> gave me access to many audio features.
>
> What needs to run for that icon to appear? and is that what I need to
> do to get sound back?
>
> And I'm sending this quick hopefully as my desktop has just frozen.
>
> nepal.

I had this problem also, with about the same system. Answer in my case
was to open the sound mixer and go to settings and then turn on all
the extra buttons. Some of those extra buttons were set  to mute.
Unmute them and all is good.



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