No Sound :(

[Basil Chupin]

On 11/13/2010 01:28 PM, Nathan Bahn wrote:

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> Unfortunately, I discovered -- to my dismay -- that I lack the skill 
> set required to follow the instructions laid out therein.

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Further to what I wrote earlier....

Unfortunately, nobody asked you some pertinent questions - and you 
didn't provide any details in your OP.

I just booted up my installation of Maverick (10.10) and I have sound, 
perfect sound, sound which you would be proud of if you heard it :-) , 
and I do *NOT* have pulseaudio installed!

Let's start with the basics: I already asked you in the earlier message 
if you have an onboard sound chip or a PCI audio card - so which is it?

But in any case, open a terminal/console (Applications>Accessories) and 
type in (without the quotes) "sudo lshw" . You will get an output to the 
screen; press and hold the Shift key and then press (keep pressing...) 
the Page Up key and look for an entry which is "*- Multimedia " - this 
will show which audio device/s you have available.

Note down the name of the device/s but there is no need for the complete 
details. For example, while I have an onboard audio chip I have it 
turned off in the BIOS so lshw shows that I have a 'SB0400 Audigy2' card 
which is sitting on the pci bus.

I could stop here and wait for your response to the above, but I will 
also say to go System>Administration>Synaptic Package Manager and find 
'alsamixergui' and install it. I am pretty sure that it is not installed 
by default but if it is then leave it alone.

(At this point I would normally suggest that you get rid of pulseaudio 
but I will desist right now until I get some feedback from you on the 
above.)

BC

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