New Intrepid upgrade killed all my sound

[Nigel Henry]

On Tuesday 04 November 2008 19:09, Cybe R. Wizard wrote:
> Nigel Henry <cave.dnb2m97pp at aliceadsl.fr>  said:
> > > Sadly, that is not found in my repositories.  Is there a special
> > > one I should enable?  I have Main, Universe, Restricted and
> > > Multiverse and third party repo http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu
> > > intrepid partner.
> >
> > No. No special repo. I don't have Intrepid yet, but thought that the
> > Ubuntu version had Pulseaudio installed as default, and the usual
> > means to disable it, is to simply remove the alsa-plugins-pulseaudio
> > package. Have you checked in synaptic to see if the package is there?
>
> Yes, that's where I got the info that it isn't available.
>
> > All the above output seems fine. Have you opened alsamixer in a
> > terminal, and checked for items that may be muted, or sliders set to
> > zero. The "M" key toggles the mute/unmute.
>
> Yes, my one slider is up all the way, not muted.  I'm beginning to
> think, "hardware."

Did you have more sliders on your Hardy install? I remember on my Fedora9 
install there was only one slider, and that had Pulseaudio installed as 
default. Upon disabling Pulseaudio, Alsamixer then had several sliders for my 
hda intel card. I still had to set model options for snd-hda-intel, as the 
default didn't have a slider for "CD"

I'm going to have to dl Intrepid (3 days on dialup for the Kubuntu version). 
I've decided to DL the Ubuntu version, as that appears to have Pulseaudio 
installed as default ( the Kubuntu versions don't). It's not easy 
troubleshooting, when you don't have the distro installed.
>
> > If you upgraded from HH to Intrepid, you should still have the Hardy
> > kernel available. Have you tried booting using that?
>
> As luck would have it, Intrepid's grub has not only failed to list both
> my old kernels on the existing partitions, it has also failed to list
> the other bootable partitions in my system.

It's worth a look in /boot. You may find the hardy kernels are still there, 
but you'll have to add them manually to grubs menu.lst.
>
> > Nigel.
>
> I think I'll slide in the Intrepid CD and boot live to see if it has
> sound.  If not, maybe hardware?  I'm running out of resources!
> (me, not the system)
>
> Hmm, there's an upgrade today for libasound2-plugins which looks like
> it may be what I'm waiting for.  Here's some description:
>
> ALSA library additional plugins
> This package contains plugins for the ALSA library that are
> not included in the main libasound2 package.
> [...]
> The PulseAudio library plugin "pulse" allows the ALSA
> library to play or capture via PulseAudio.
>
> I'm off to try it.
>
> Cybe R. Wizard

Nigel.