Sound stopped working, Dell Laptop

[P. Echols]

On Wed, Jun 17, 2020, 3:52 PM Mike Marchywka <marchywka at hotmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 11:28:17PM +0100, Peter Flynn wrote:
> > On 17/06/2020 21:51, P. Echols wrote:
> > > Greetings all,
> > > I have a dell inspiron laptop with Ubuntu 18.04.4.  Also dual boots to
> > > windows 10.
> > > Everything was working, but suddenly sound does not work.  Volume is
> > > up, "built in audio" selected in settings (the only choice).
> > > Following some guides on the interwebs, I reinstalled alsa and
> > > pulseaudio to no effect.  Oh, and in my efforts, I managed to make the
> > > toolbar widget go away.  But still should work, right?
> >
> > I had almost the exact same problem years ago.
> > Turned out some random app felt the need to run
> > off the sound when it initialised for the first
> > time, and I couldn't work out which one it was,
> > and it had effectively disabled sound. I never
> > did get it working again, and as I was going
> > through distros to find one I liked, whatever
> > that one was I tossed it.
> >
> > I'm afraid it's a matter of hunting through
> > everything likely to have accessed sound (eg
> > Youtube page in browser).


Thanks. What's weird for me is that everything has been there already.
Maybe something updated.


> You can try apropos or "apt-cache search " for
> various audio tools. I just made my own script for audio and
> it looks like it is using pactl if you have that available,
>
> volume()
> {
> echo setting volume $1
> v="$1"
> VOL="pactl set-sink-volume 0 $v%"
> $VOL
> echo done setting volume $1
> }
>
> apropos pulseaudio
> default.pa (5)       - PulseAudio Sound Server Startup Script
> pacat (1)            - Play back or record raw or encoded audio streams on
> a ...
> pacmd (1)            - Reconfigure a PulseAudio sound server during runtime
> pactl (1)            - Control a running
>

<snip>

Thanks. I'm not sure I understand how that may apply in my situation.

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