20 Feb
2016
20 Feb
'16
7:34 a.m.
I guess that my solution, which I posted a little earlier, would be the strange set of mouse clicks that led me to pavucontrol. Now I know what it's called. :-) It was listed as "Pulseaudio Volume" in the menus, and the window title comes up as "Volume Control" on my system. Thanks, Russell for your help! Paul King On 2016-02-20 9:54, Russell Reiter wrote:
This may be a known bug. https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=79911
You say alsa is not running. However I believe the sound daemon is either Alsa or OSS, although OSS seems to have been eclipsed by Alsa. Try this in order to unmute everything.
amixer -D pulse set Master 1+ toggle
Or you could try installing pavucontrol.