Some other oddments of the sound on my system: The Ubuntu online docs suggested I run aplay /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav as a "fail-safe" audio file that is touted to work in all configs. It worked when: a) I was logged on as root on a console (ie, one of the ALT+# screens); b) when I logged onto a console with my joeuser account (as myself) and ran the command with sudo. It did not work when logged in as myself, as myself on X-windows, or sudoed in X-Windows under my account, nor did it work if I logged on to X-windows as root. In summary, logging in as root in a TTY has the best sound right now. On 20 Feb 2016 at 8:30, Paul King wrote: No need to apologize. If it is the PCM channel, then I don't know how to access its information to know if it is muted or not. I noticed that alsa was installed but not running (I did a ps | grep as root). Pulseaudio was actually running. I didn't know it was a wrapper for Alsa. It appears to be standalone going by the docs (I don't see alsa or OSS listed as a pre-requisite or a system requirement). Paul On 20 Feb 2016 at 5:43, Russell Reiter wrote: Sorry to top post. I meant to say PCM channel. Still haven't had morning coffee.
Are you using Alsa, OSS or the Pulseaudio wrapper. I've seen this problem where the Alsa mixer mutes the dsp channel on reboot. If you are using Alsa you can try using the alsamixer to unmute the channel and alsactl store to make the settings persistent.
Hope this helps. Russell
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On Feb 19, 2016 9:17 PM, "Paul King" <sciguy@vex.net> wrote:
I have what I must describe as a strange sound problem under Linux Ubuntu Studio 14.x. The operating system sound is dead, so is sound which ought to come out of media players like VLC. Sound also fails to work in the browser.
BUT, it DOES work perfectly under Audacity. I have tried to change the
system
settings to the same settings as Audacity, but I haven't been successful.
THere was touted to be a window called "Sound Preferences", but when I clicked on the speaker icon to select "sound preferences" from the dropdown, the window that came up was "System settings", which only had icons for the printer, desktop and one other thing that had nothing to do with sound that I can't recall.
Any ideas?
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