Help with sound

[Petter Adsen]

On Sun, 5 Jul 2015 14:22:24 -0700
"Kevin O'Gorman" <kogorman at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've had no sound with Xubuntu on this system since I switched to HDMI
> monitors.  This has been true on two different motherboards.  I
> suspect it's because the HDMI monitors do NOT support sound, but the
> HDMI interface does.  I do not find sound controls on these monitors,
> or menu options about sound.
> 
> The current motherboard has a built-in sound system as well, I have
> attached speakers, and when I dual-boot to Windows 7, that's what it
> uses and sound works just fine.  So I suspect Xubuntu is detecting
> HDMI and trying to send sound there.
> 
> I tried turning off HDMI sound in gmusicbrowser, but it still stayed
> silent.  I'm not sure what else i can do or try.
> 
> Help, please.

Try pavucontrol and/or alsamixer, and make sure the correct output is
selected and not muted.

Petter

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