Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: gnome-media
* The Problem *
At some point around 7-9.01.2009 I lost the sound on my Ubuntu Jaunty
laptop.
When I play some tune in Totem I see it playing (visualisation),
I have the main volume all the way up and not muted in the panel sound applet,
and in Sound Preferences window.
On the Output pane i have my "HDA Intel - ALC268 Analog" device selected.
At the Applications pane I see a Totem player and its volume is all the way up
and not muted.
When I open the PulseAudio Volume control I see the Totem player playing and
the "volume bar" bouncing to the music.
At the output devices I see "HDA Intel - ALC268 Analog" device with vlume up
and the volume bar bouncing.
BUT I hear NO sound at all.
* The Cause *
I opened a Terminal and launched alsamixer, but there is only PulseAudio card
available with one "Master" volume control which is, as I described earlier,
all the way at 100% and not mute.
After some digging at launchpad bugs I found "alsamixer -c 0" and BINGO - when
I got alsamixer with "HDA Intel" I saw that the "Front" channel was at 0% and
muted. When I unmuted it and turned its volume up I finally got sound on my box.
The problem is that I couldn't get it fixed with tools available in the
GNOME package. The old gnome-volume-control gave access to all cards and
all its volume controls. The 'alsamixer' is to complicated for average
Joe User. And even knowing that the command existed I couldn't get the
volume issue fixed without "arcane" knowledge of the real and virtual
alsa sound devices and -c option to alsamixer.
** Affects: gnome-media (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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No sount in Ubuntu Jaunty
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/315927
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