update killed my sound AGAIN!!!

[Bill Walton]

Sound was working immediately prior to update.  I will try with a Live CD
asap.

Bill
On Mar 29, 2012 12:01 PM, "G." <pegngaryubuntu at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 7:58 AM, Bill Walton <bwalton.im at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi Gary,
> >
> >
> > On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 8:27 PM, G. <pegngaryubuntu at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> 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
> >
> > Thanks for the response and my apologies for my delay in responding.
> > Running pulseaudio -k has no effect.  The command returns immediately
> > with no output whatsoever.  Rebooting the system afterward has no
> > effect wrt sound output either.
> >
> > Thanks, u
> > Bill
> >
> > -
> Sure it is not hardware?
>
> Anyway, how aboout booting into a LiveCD and seeing if you have sound?
>  If you do then you can be 100% sure it is a software issue.
>
> I never get an output for pulseaudio-k but sound works afterwards.
>
>
> garyk
>
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