After 3 years of Ubuntu, suddenly lost sound

[Pastor JW]

On Tuesday 12 May 2009 6:52:08 am custom at freenet.de wrote:
> Didn\'t even upgrade or install anything..  Was using it
> today at the office, no issues at all.  Then got home and no
> sound anymore, also not after restarting..
>
> The strange thing is, I DO have sound on the login page,
> and I DO have sound in Skype.
>
> But no system sounds, no music, no sound with videos, etc..
>
>
> I\'m at a complete loss.. I googled around a bit and found
> some posts on pulse audio so I installed a bunch of sound
> related packages..  no effect.

Adding more packages before fixing the problem complicates things a bit but do 
you have Control Center on your release?  If so in "Sound and Multimedia" 
then "System Notifications" there is a button to turn on all sounds.  (also 
one to turn them off!)  Since you have sound in some places, you DO have 
sound.  It is likely just turned off for some apps.  However, what few sound 
problems we have had here arose from PulseAudio.




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