All sound completely disappeared [SOLVED]

Asaf K. · 2011-10-24 09:03:17

I am using AwesomeWM, SLiM and ALSA. All to the latest updated versions on pacman/AUR.

Last night I hit "mute" by accident, and when I unmuted all sound was gone from my system. The speakers are fine, the alsamixer shows volume levels are fine, I tried removing and reinstalling pulseaudio, restarting and whatnot.

I have never been stumped like this by a problem!

Many thanks,
Asaf.

Last edited by Asaf K. (2011-10-25 18:48:14)

twilight0 · 2011-10-25 11:13:10

Check alsamixer again, you probably forgot some volume with mute still on. Check your hardware as well.

Asaf K. · 2011-10-25 17:40:05

twilight0 wrote:

Check alsamixer again, you probably forgot some volume with mute still on. Check your hardware as well.

The hardware is fine, since it works now.

The mixer was definitely not the problem. The sound did not work even with all the channels unmuted and on 100% volume. I think I know what the mute button does to the mixer, I wrote the script.

I have no idea why it started working again. It just did.

twilight0 · 2011-10-25 17:43:55

Good for you! Glad to hear that sound works again.

Asaf K. · 2011-10-25 17:47:50

twilight0 wrote:

Good for you! Glad to hear that sound works again.

I was very glad to hear that sounds works again as well, so I guess that makes two of us ;-)

karol · 2011-10-25 18:03:01

Please mark the thread as solved.

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All sound completely disappeared [SOLVED]

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Re: All sound completely disappeared [SOLVED]

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Re: All sound completely disappeared [SOLVED]

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