update killed my sound AGAIN!!!

[G.]

On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 1:36 PM, Bill Walton <bwalton.im at gmail.com> wrote:
> Sorry for the shouting but this has been a PITA for a long time.  In
> the past I've always been able to restore sound (I lose it after
> _every_ update) by following the help documentation
> (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SoundTroubleshootingProcedure).
> This time I am unable to get sound back.  I'm running 10.04 on an HP
> G72 laptop.  No dual boot.  Just 10.04 LTS.
>
> The most telling, so far, response I get from the system is from the
> output of the first step:
> <snip>
> linux-image-2.6.32-40-generic is already the newest version.
> E: Couldn't find package linux-alsa-driver-modules-2.6.32-40-generic
> <snip>
>
> Any ideas?  I'm happy to post more info if it will help, but this
> seems to be the nut.
>
> Thanks,
> Bill
>
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Have you tried pulseaudio -k from a terminal?  This gets me restarted in 11.10.


garyk