[ubuntu-uk] Lost all sound after upgrade

[Helen McCall]

Amazing the difference a night's sleep can do!

I found the problem straight away this morning. The mixer setting for
PCM had been reset to mute. It must have been either totem-xine or
audacity which did it. I've still to work out which.

So now on a sunny sunday morning, I am playing the music I composed in
lilypond. My upgraded timidity package is now rendering it properly, and
I have a smile on my face again.

Helen (wildnfree)

On Sun, 2006-01-29 at 01:53 +0000, Helen McCall wrote:
> Can anyone point me to whatever might be causing my sound problem?
> 
> I performed a long overdue upgrade to a number of packages. Following
> which my sound just stopped working altogether.
> 
> The offending upgrade was the following:
> 
> Commit Log for Sat Jan 28 22:03:31 2006
> 
> Completely removed the following packages:
> fgfs-base
> flightgear
> simgear0
> 
> Removed the following packages:
> libmodplug0
> libxine1
> 
> Upgraded the following packages:
> a2ps (1:4.13b-2) to 1:4.13b-4.3
> linux-image-386 (2.6.12.16) to 2.6.12.16.1
> linux-restricted-modules-386 (2.6.12.16) to 2.6.12.16.1
> xine-ui (0.99.3-1) to 0.99.3-1ubuntu5
> 
> Installed the following packages:
> emacsen-common (1.4.16)
> libmodplug0c2 (1:0.7-4.1)
> libxine1c2 (1.0.1-1ubuntu10.2)
> linux-image-2.6.12-10-386 (2.6.12-10.26)
> linux-restricted-modules-2.6.12-10-386 (2.6.12.4-11.1)
> plib1.8.4 (1.8.4-1ubuntu1)
> 
> After this I attempted to play a wav file using totem-xine. This sort of
> played, but very patchy. I then tried audacity but could get no sound at
> all. after this I could not get any sound of any kind. No sound from the
> gdm login screen, or from the gnome desktop, or from any sound
> application at all, however I launched it.
> 
> I tested the es1371 soundcard by booting up an old installation of
> Debian 2.2 potato. The soundcard worked fine and everything was fine in
> potato.
> 
> Booting back into Breezy I checked that the alsa server was running. I
> ran a sound test on it, which apparently ran, but produced no sound.
> Everything I have checked appears to be correctly setup, but just no
> sound comes out of the speakers unless I boot into the old potato
> installation. 
> 
> I am totally mystified for the first time in a decade of using Debian
> based systems.
> 
> Can anyone help?
> 
> Helen (wildnfree)
> 
>