Suddenly ... no audio at all

[Basil Chupin]

On 21/10/12 19:39, Ric Moore wrote:
> On 10/21/2012 04:14 AM, Basil Chupin wrote:
>> On 21/10/12 18:25, Hans Muecke wrote:
>>> Am 21.10.2012 00:50, schrieb Ric Moore:
>>>
>>>> On 10/20/2012 12:04 PM, Hans Muecke wrote:
>>>>> Hi ...
>>>>>
>>>>> Sometimes within the last 2 days (I suspect after the latest software
>>>>> update) I completely lost audio. No system notifications, no audio on
>>>>> youtube or on locally stored files.
>>>>>
>>>>> Checked if hardware is recognized (it is), played a file with asound
>>>>> from terminal (which I can't hear), I can rule out faulty hardware
>>>>> since
>>>>> it works under win ...
>>>>>
>>>>> I noticed, that when I have the volume window open with volume at 
>>>>> 100%
>>>>> volume drops to 0 as soon as I execute the asound command. I am 
>>>>> out of
>>>>> ideas here ...
>>>>
>>>> Have you installed pavucontrol and run it to set up your hardware? For
>>>> whatever ungodly reason, it doesn't get installed at install time. Ric
>>> Hi Ric ... no I haven't. Never had and everything worked, Will try 
>>> that.
>>
>> I don't have (and never have) pavucontrol installed and I have perfect
>> sound.
> If you use different audio inputs/outputs, I don't see how you would 
> live without it!

Oh, I can live without it - and have lived without it for many, many 
moons :-) .

And as the man said, he didn't have pavucontrol installed and had no 
problems with sound in the past.

> I tend to extreme, with 5.1 sound, headsets, etc. So, I can switch to 
> any of them live and on the bounce.
>
> Trust me, it's come a LONG WAYS BABY since back when, when I loathed 
> it too!  :) Ric

Here is a little titbit re pulseaudio and, therefore, pavucontrol:

"In a typical installation scenario under Linux, the user configures 
ALSA to use a virtual device provided by PulseAudio. Thus, applications 
using ALSA will output sound to PulseAudio, which then uses ALSA itself 
to access the real sound card."

In other words, ALSA comes first and if that ain't done right then 
pulseaudio/pavucontrol is <enter-own-choice-of-naughty-type-word> :-) .

BC

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