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rgb-one

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Registered: 2013-09-15

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[solved]sound issues with alsa

Hello everyone. My system sound has stopped working after using cmus. What I did was to launch cmus, followed by opening a folder with audio files and playing one. I then closed the terminal while the audio file was still playing. When I tried to run cmus again a message along the lines of "socket was still active" was outputted without launching cmus. So i deleted the ~/.cmus directory and cmus was able to launch again. However this time there was no audio. I tested for audio in youtube but there was none there either. I have run speaker-test but to no avail. I deleted and reinstalled alsa numerous times as well as all the configuration files associated with it on the system but there is still no audio. I doesnt seem to be a hardware issue because the sound works in Ubuntu on another partition. Maybe it is a driver issue? Has anyone had any similar issues?

Last edited by rgb-one (2014-07-09 19:22:29)

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Re: [solved]sound issues with alsa

So that permanently broke sound for you and rebooting doesn't fix it? What happens when you try unmuting everything in alsamixer? Your dmesg might have information about sound. I recently used it to find out that a kernel update rendered my sound card dependent on the alsa-firmware package.

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rgb-one

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Registered: 2013-09-15

Posts: 19

Re: [solved]sound issues with alsa

All relevant thing were set to 100% except for mic and beep which didn't seem necessary. A light was activated indicating that it was muted which isn't there when using Ubuntu. The kernel upgrade could be the issue, however I removed the linux kernel for linux-lts. So I will edit grub and post what happens when I get the system up.

rgb-one

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Registered: 2013-09-15

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Re: [solved]sound issues with alsa

Ok so the issue was that it was muted. I accidentally clicked the , key while in alsa and the audio started to play. So it switched from MM to 00. I installed the firmware package but I am uncertain if that has anything to do with the solution. I ill test it some other time. Thanks.

Last edited by rgb-one (2014-07-09 19:27:02)