No sound, not sure what device is being used

[Niles Rogoff]

I don't actually know much about sound, but I can tell you to look into
some of the configuration options for PulseAudio. It controls sound input
(from applications) and output (to speakers). In my experience, most
problems were fixed with apt-get purge pulseaudio and a reboot, though in
your case this may just make things worse.

2015-04-10 17:54 GMT-04:00 Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman at gmail.com>:

> Running xubuntu 14.04, sometime recently the sound quit on me.  Having run
> into something like this on my Win-8 laptop, I'm aware of several
> possibilities.   In that case, it turned out to be the system's preference
> to send sound to the HDMI external port.  But the monitor I had plugged in
> there had a broken sound system.  I fixed it by changing preferences.
>
> On the xubuntu system, I do not know how to control that.  Because I've
> been trying various things, right now there's sound on the mobo, an add-in
> sound card, and one HDMI monitor (it's new, so I do not suspect breakage
> there).
>
> For starters, I'd appreciate help figuring out what the system thinks it's
> using.  I have no clue how to do that.  If I could, then I could try
> changing it to see if one of the sound devices works, or debug them, or
> replace them, or whatever.
>
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