On 12 July 2010 22:02, Jordon Bedwell <<a href="mailto:jordon@envygeeks.com">jordon@envygeeks.com</a>> wrote: <div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class="im">On 7/12/2010 3:57 PM, Ben Edwards wrote: > I have just done as 'apt-get dist-upgrade' on my xubuntu (mythubuntu) box > and now I have no sound. > > I tried exiting the front end and adding a mixer applet but when I try to > use it I get 'GStreamer was unable to detect any sound devise...'. > > alsamixer reports 'canot open mixer:no such file or directory' > > here is the lspci: </div><div class="im">> 08:01.0 Audio device: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT1708/A [Azalia HDAC] (VIA > High Definition Audio Controller) (rev 10) > > Any ideas? > Ben > > </div>Next time you should do a grep on lspci so we don't get all the extra un-needed stuff... EXP: "lspci |grep -i audio". That said, try: rm -rf ~/.pulse killall pulseaudio </blockquote><div> Thanks I did that and rebooted and all worked. Ben </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> -- Cheers, Jordon Bedwell <a href="http://envygeeks.com" target="_blank">http://envygeeks.com</a> -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </blockquote></div>