I found that rebooting doesn't bring sound back --I had to shutdown, so you may want to try that, ullix. (I have a T60, btw)
Also, the problem doesn't seem to happen when I suspend, so it may be that bug 83509 is not a dupe after all. -- [Feisty] Inaudible audio upon resuming from suspend-to-disk https://launchpad.net/bugs/80893 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs