<div dir="auto"><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Jun 17, 2020, 3:52 PM Mike Marchywka <<a href="mailto:marchywka@hotmail.com">marchywka@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 11:28:17PM +0100, Peter Flynn wrote:<br>
> On 17/06/2020 21:51, P. Echols wrote:<br>
> > Greetings all,<br>
> > I have a dell inspiron laptop with Ubuntu 18.04.4. Also dual boots to<br>
> > windows 10.<br>
> > Everything was working, but suddenly sound does not work. Volume is<br>
> > up, "built in audio" selected in settings (the only choice).<br>
> > Following some guides on the interwebs, I reinstalled alsa and<br>
> > pulseaudio to no effect. Oh, and in my efforts, I managed to make the<br>
> > toolbar widget go away. But still should work, right?<br>
> <br>
> I had almost the exact same problem years ago.<br>
> Turned out some random app felt the need to run<br>
> off the sound when it initialised for the first<br>
> time, and I couldn't work out which one it was,<br>
> and it had effectively disabled sound. I never<br>
> did get it working again, and as I was going<br>
> through distros to find one I liked, whatever<br>
> that one was I tossed it.<br>
> <br>
> I'm afraid it's a matter of hunting through<br>
> everything likely to have accessed sound (eg<br>
> Youtube page in browser).</blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Thanks. What's weird for me is that everything has been there already. Maybe something updated. </div><div dir="auto"></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<br>
You can try apropos or "apt-cache search " for<br>
various audio tools. I just made my own script for audio and<br>
it looks like it is using pactl if you have that available,<br>
<br>
volume()<br>
{<br>
echo setting volume $1<br>
v="$1"<br>
VOL="pactl set-sink-volume 0 $v%"<br>
$VOL<br>
echo done setting volume $1<br>
}<br>
<br>
apropos pulseaudio<br>
<a href="http://default.pa" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">default.pa</a> (5) - PulseAudio Sound Server Startup Script<br>
pacat (1) - Play back or record raw or encoded audio streams on a ...<br>
pacmd (1) - Reconfigure a PulseAudio sound server during runtime<br>
pactl (1) - Control a running <br></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><snip></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Thanks. I'm not sure I understand how that may apply in my situation.</div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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