Fix Intrepid sound

[Daniel T Chen]

On 11/16/2008 09:17 PM, Karl Larsen wrote:
>
>      If you have sound when you first turned on your Intrepid but then
> after one or more re-boots your sound failed, this will fix that
> problem. It was sent to me by Nigel Henry in France.
>
>      There is a device you can work with called the AlsaMixer which these
> days you can reach by opening a terminal window. In this type alsamixer.
> If you see just one adjustment then pulse audio is on and working.
>
>      Now turn off AlsaMixer and do this by pressing the esc key. Now
> bring it back up using this: alsamixer -D hw:0 which will show all your
> AlsaMixer settings. My laptop has 7 adjustments but the critical one is
> called PCM and it was, for some reason set at zero. This was why my
> sound quit. I set it back to 90 and now my sound is again normal.
>
>      Turn off the AlsaMixer with esc and your done. Good reading is the
> man pages for AlsaMixer.
>
>
>
> Karl
>
>
Please note that adjusting mixer controls via alsamixer will only "fix 
intrepid sound" if a mixer control(s) were in fact the culprit.  
Luckily, your issue was easily resolved by unmuting the appropriate 
control.  (Many users' controls do not in fact offer a 'PCM'.)