ok, situation solved I think: I did a cold reboot, shut it down, let it sit for a few minutes, then restarted the machine, and voila, I have sound -- so this was, as they say, "stray capacitance" (ie, wtf I dunno)
sorry, seems to be a false alarm, although I did learn alot about debugging alsa ;) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1087905 Title: no audio output device with ens1371 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/alsa-driver/+bug/1087905/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs