Enabling sound Upgrade Issue

[Patrick Drechsler]

Bill Thompson wrote on 26 Jun 2006 18:59:43 MET:

> On Thu, 22 Jun 2006 21:32:35 +0100
> Patrick Drechsler <patrick at pdrechsler.de> wrote:
>
>> > On Thu, 22 Jun 2006 19:45:14 +0100
>> > Patrick Drechsler <patrick at pdrechsler.de> wrote:
>> >
>> >> I can confirm the effect that sound is gone after the last
>> >> security upgrade (dapper) this weekend.

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> I was able to fix my sound issue this weekend. I'm not sure
> this will help everyone, but it may point you in the right
> direction.

Thanks for your report Bill.

> After the security upgrade I preformed on 2006.06.17, it
> appears that the DSP output port on my sound card was activated
> where before it was not. The DSP port overrode the analog
> output port that I actually use. The setting switch for these
> ports does not appear in either the Gnome or KDE mixer
> programs. Only by running "alsamixer" or "alsamixergui" was I
> able to shut off the DSP output. Once that was done, the sound
> on my machine behaved normally.

Running alsamixer|alsamixergui (both as user as well as root)
does not show a "menu entry" for DSP. Which "menu entry" did you
change/deactivate/mute to get your sound back?

TIA

Patrick
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