sound broken after update

[Bill Walton]

On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 10:39 AM, Frans Ketelaars <ketelaars at wanadoo.nl> wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Jun 2012 07:45:41 -0700, David L wrote:
>
>> I updated my Ubuntu 12.04 system today and I no longer have any sound.
>>
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>Have you already tried rebooting?
>
> I found this guide: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SoundTroubleshooting
> but it says: "As of 2012, much of the information on this page is
> outdated. Please refer to the official sound debugging guide and Ubuntu
> Audio Development team's pages for more up-to-date information."
>
> Unfortunately it seems ubuntu sound debugging info isn't as good as it
> should be :(

Amen to that!  I'm on 10.04LTS and haven't had sound to external
speakers or mic for months.  Luckily the headset jacks still work.

The community documentation used to have a 2 step process for 10.04.
The first usually got the external sound back.  If not, the second
always did.  Then the documentation changed and the second step
disappeared.  Haven't been able to restore external sound since.

Best regards,
Bill