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Wilkins

Member

Registered: 2016-08-28

Posts: 1

Rebooted and sound isn't working

Hi,

My sound was working last night, then when I rebooted today I suddenly have no sound..

I realise there are tons of tutorials out there already and have tried following many of them, yet I still cannot get my sound to work.

I get the classic error when trying to unmute the Master channel via

amixer sset Master unmute

of:

amixer: Unable to find simple control 'Master',0

The output of my `cat /proc/asound/cards`:

0 [SB             ]: HDA-Intel - HDA ATI SB
                      HDA ATI SB at 0xfcff4000 irq 16
1 [NVidia         ]: HDA-Intel - HDA NVidia
                      HDA NVidia at 0xfea7c000 irq 19
2 [DGX            ]: CMI8786 - Xonar DGX
                      C-Media Oxygen HD Audio at 0xd800, irq 16

I've tried the following settings in /etc/asound.conf

pcm.!default {
    type hw
    card 2
}

ctl.!default {
    type hw           
    card 2
}

And the following settings in ~/.asoundrc

defaults.pcm.!card 2
defaults.pcm.!device 1

and

defaults.pcm.!card 2
defaults.pcm.!device 0

I have also tried re-installing alsa-utils, still no luck.

Let me know the output of any commands you may need to help me and I'll provide them straight away, it's getting frustrating now.

Last edited by Wilkins (2016-09-19 18:32:04)

onslow77

Member

Registered: 2014-09-21

Posts: 279

Re: Rebooted and sound isn't working

Hello!

Have you followed the alsa troubleshoot guide?

Perhaps your sound cards has changed order, try setting the default sound card. (Linked from the main troubleshoot guide).

Regards
Martin

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