[solved] HDMI audio is silent

[Little Girl]

Hey there,

Ralf Mardorf via ubuntu-users wrote:
>Little Girl wrote:
>> If it's of any comfort to you, my sound has been messed up for the
>> past two releases now and the only way I can get my speakers to
>> make sound at all is to plug them into the headset jack, so that's
>> what I do and, luckily, it works nicely.

>pulseaudio? All required sinks are loaded?

No idea. It looks like they're not. I did a quick bit of Googling and
came up with this command to try to list all sinks loaded into
PulseAudio. The SUSPENDED part has me worried:

$ pactl list short sinks
0       alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1f.3.analog-stereo
module-alsa-card.c      s16le 2ch 48000Hz       SUSPENDED

I followed that with this command to create human-readable
descriptions of detected devices:

$ pactl list sinks | grep description
device.profile.description = "Analog Stereo"
device.description = "Built-in Audio Analog Stereo"

>By the way. I've found that "pcspkr" works on my new hardware, only
>the environment is too loud, a cooing pigeon or a squeaky bike
>easily drowns out the buzzer.

That's a shame. Is there any way to turn it up?

>does somebody know where to get a good PC speaker/buzzer? I ordered

There seem to be several different kinds on Amazon here:

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=pc+buzzer

And it looks like you get a similar list in Germany:

https://www.amazon.de/s?k=pc+buzzer

-- 
Little Girl

There is no spoon.