Sound in Ubuntu 10.04

[Douglas Pollard]

On 11/25/2010 05:12 PM, Mark wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 4:39 PM, Ric Moore<wayward4now at gmail.com>  wrote:
>    
>> Use pavucontrol to control your audio, exclusively, since pulse is
>> supposed to be in control. Sure, you can use just alsa, and the alsa
>> based mixers, but you lose the Rocky Jones Space Ranger features. Ric
>>
>>      
> Oh, yah, that's critical!  :-)
>
> I'm now testing a new machine and it started off with no sound either.
>   I uninstalled pulse twice - didn't get it right the first time - and
> now it works fine, with ALSA.
>
> YMMV.
>
>    
Ok ,  Don't know what I did but used pavucontrol restarted Ubuntu Studio 
and sound was no longer muted. the trouble is I don't underatand what I 
did?????    doug