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5donuts

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Registered: 2014-11-06

Posts: 24

[SOLVED] No sound after 2x amixer set Master toggle

For the past 6-ish months, I've been able to successfully play sounds with my laptop, but today I was in a place where I would rather no sounds play and used the command

amixer set Master toggle

which I presumed would toggle the muted status of Master. Unfortunately, when I returned home and used that same command, I no longer got sound. I tried using

amixer set Master 100

and

amixer set Master unmute

to attempt to restore sound, but when I tested the sound with

speaker-test

but still got no sound from the speakers.

I didn't edit any configuration files, although I did have vlc media player open when i toggled Master the second time.  I tried uninstalling and reinstalling both vlc and alsa-utils but still no sound fix.  Any suggestions?

Last edited by 5donuts (2015-03-13 19:53:22)

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allencch

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Registered: 2011-03-25

Posts: 118

Re: [SOLVED] No sound after 2x amixer set Master toggle

Try

amixer set Master 100%

5donuts

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From: The Internet

Registered: 2014-11-06

Posts: 24

Re: [SOLVED] No sound after 2x amixer set Master toggle

Discovered that whatever the issue was originated with vlc media player, since every time I toggle the master (which I bound to my laptop's mute key using xbindkeys) vlc mutes channels in pulseaudio, which I managed to unmute with pavucontrols. I don't know why vlc does this, but it happens and pavucontrols is the easy, graphical solution

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The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it. --Terry Pratchett