Re: [ubuntu-uk] 10.04 lost sound - fixed more by luck than judgement!!!!!

2011-11-27 Thread George Tripp
> As a first step, because you are likely to have old kernels still > installed, I would recommend trying the kernel of the same version as > the liveCD to see if that works better. Tried various kernels but unfortunately to no avail. The happy ending bit: As a last resort I thought I'd try rem

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 10.04 lost sound

2011-11-25 Thread Andy Whitcroft
On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 11:26:54PM +, George Tripp wrote: > Looking increasingly likely I'm going to end up having to reinstall. A shame > really since it's only sound that's the problem. That's life! A reinstall seems excessive. If it works on the liveCD it is clearly not a hardware issue.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 10.04 lost sound

2011-11-24 Thread George Tripp
Thanks for the suggestions: >Maybe rename your .pulse folder (if there is one) to see if it works? >If not, rename it back. Tried this & a new folder is generated but still doesn't work :( >Have you run > >alsamixer Looked at this & as far as I can see nothing's muted etc. Also looked at the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 10.04 lost sound

2011-11-24 Thread bodsda
t Reply-To: George Tripp , UK Ubuntu Talk Subject: [ubuntu-uk] 10.04 lost sound Not sure what happened (or what I've done!) but I don't seem to have sound any more. I'm convinced it's a software issue as if I boot from a live CD the sound works OK. I've tri

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 10.04 lost sound

2011-11-24 Thread Tony Pursell
On 24 November 2011 15:33, George Tripp wrote: > Not sure what happened (or what I've done!) but I don't seem to have sound > any more. > > I'm convinced it's a software issue as if I boot from a live CD the sound > works OK. > > I've tried uninstalling / reinstalling alsa & pulse in synaptic to

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 10.04 lost sound

2011-11-24 Thread ronnie
I sometimes get get no sound in Kubuntu (Ubuntu with KDE) after an update. I normally delete the .pulse folder, log out then in and all's good. Maybe rename your .pulse folder (if there is one) to see if it works? If not, rename it back. Good luck! Quoting George Tripp : Not sure what

[ubuntu-uk] 10.04 lost sound

2011-11-24 Thread George Tripp
Not sure what happened (or what I've done!) but I don't seem to have sound any more. I'm convinced it's a software issue as if I boot from a live CD the sound works OK. I've tried uninstalling / reinstalling alsa & pulse in synaptic to no avail + various terminal commands (doing similar things