Sound stopped working on both 14.04 and 15.04

[Petter Adsen]

On Sun, 23 Aug 2015 14:59:04 -0700
"Kevin O'Gorman" <kogorman at gmail.com> wrote:

> I use sound on Linux so seldom I can't really say when it stopped working,
> but it was within the last 2 months.  I really don't fool with it, so I
> don't think I blundered it away.
> 
> I'm pretty clueless about sound software, so at this point I'm stuck.
> HELP!!

The first test to do is always to open alsamixer (and pavucontrol, if
you have pulseaudio) and check that sound isn't muted and the right
outputs are selected. That is by far the most common problem.

Petter

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