No sound

[Ric Moore]

On 05/20/2013 03:00 PM, Bill Stanley wrote:
> On 05/20/2013 02:10 PM, Bill Stanley wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Yesterday, all application sounds for one of my user account stopped.  I
>> still get the startup sound for that account and on the other user
>> accounts the sound works OK.  It's obvious that it's not the hardware.
>>
>> I am using the Mint desktop.  I checked to see if the sound volume was
>> turned down and it is at 100%.  I also checked to see if the sound was
>> muted, it's not muted.  I checked under system /preferences / sound and
>> everything seems to be OK.  When I tested the speakers using the sound
>> utility I do get sounds.  Since I get the startup sound, the speakers
>> work when tested (using the affected user account, and the other user
>> accounts work fine.
>>
>> Only the applications (Firefox, VLC, etc.) seem affected.  I checked the
>> applications but I doubt it is an application setting because all
>> applications are affected. Any suggestions on where else to look?
>>
>>
>> Bill Stanley
>
> WS=> Oops! I misspoke.  I said I used Mint when I meant the Mate
> desktop.  I just don't like Gnome 3 or Unity.  I don't want people to
> think that I'm completely an apostate!

Bill, if you open pavucontrol you can watch what sound output is being 
used at the time. If it is not correct, then switch the output to 
whatever device you chose. Hope this helps. Ric


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