No sound - where should I start looking?

[Ivan Popivanov]

After re-booting for the first time after all package install/re-installs
and I have sound!

Thanks,
Ivan

On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 7:19 PM, Myriam Schweingruber <myriam at kde.org>wrote:

> Hi Ivan,
>
> On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 1:04 AM, Ivan Popivanov
> <ivan.popivanov at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I have been using Kubuntu 11.10 on my T400 laptop for a while now. One
> thing
> > that is not working is the complete lack of sound. The interesting part
> is
> > that on the same machine, Ubuntu 11.10 had sound out of the box.
> >
> > In the "System Settings" - "Multimedia" - "Phonon" there are two devices
> for
> > Music: 1) dCute Composite Device Analog Stereo and 2) Internal Audio
> Analog
> > Stereo. Tried both - nothing. Tried removing and re-installing certain
> > packages - nothing. Where should I start?
>
> First things first: make sure nothing is muted, either in KMix or
> check with Alsamixer which is a konsole tool.
>
> Then you should install the Veromix widget and Pavucontrol, since
> Kubuntu uses Pulseaudio by default. You shouldn't modify any settings
> in Phonon, besides an eventual backend switch.
>
> Of course I assume you verified you are using either the gstreamer or
> the vlc backend and don't use the long deprecated xine backend
> anymore. In case of gstreamer you will have to install the plugins for
> some file types like the bad and the ugly plugins to get mp3 and
> mp4/aac play
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Regards, Myriam
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