no sound

[O. Sinclair]

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On 22/11/2014 07:09, Valorie Zimmerman wrote:
> 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
> 
You could also try install the Veromix widget that I find way better
than the current state of KMix in controlling PulseAudio. It
integrates nicely in the systray, you don't have to have it on the
desktop once it has been installed

Kind regards,
Sinclair

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