no sound

[Valorie Zimmerman]

On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 2:29 AM, Errol Sapir <errol at tzora.co.il> wrote:
> Hi
> I use Kubuntu 14.10 64 bit which was working fine. I started having problems
> with sound. I could not increase the volume to hear loud enough, no matter
> what I did or what program with sound I was using(youtube, skype, etc) the
> sound was too low.
> I started trying to check things. First I checked hardware. All was and is
> fine because in Windows there isn't a problem. I then tried to see if
> Kubuntu sound was set up correctly. To my not such knowledgeable (in sound
> apps) eye the configuration seemed ok.
> Then the real problem started. I lost any ability to hear anything in
> Kubuntu. No sound whatsoever! As I have my "Home" on a different partition I
> even formatted and reinstalled Kubuntu. Obviously the sound definitions are
> on my "Home" partition because I still have no sound.
> How can I solve this?
> TIA
> Errol

Hey Errol, I've found these two links very helpful in the past:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Sound -
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SoundTroubleshooting

Mostly I've found that sound has somehow been muted somewhere.

Valorie
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