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netpumber

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Registered: 2009-09-20

Posts: 134

Suddenly all sound stop playing

Hello.
I have a problem with the sound.

The latest install was the pulse audio (before i had just alsa) so to use it with skype because i couldn't use microphone and speakers .
So after a reboot there is no sound at all.

In alsamixer master channel is full.
Also in pavucontrol  when i play a video from youtube the "progress-like" bar in output devices works (fills up with blue color).

So although the master seems to be full and working, no sound is coming out.

Any hint is welcome.

ccoffey

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Registered: 2014-11-04

Posts: 15

Re: Suddenly all sound stop playing

I'm in a very similar boat.
I think I was playing around with bluetooth and broke it, but that may be a coincidence.

Like you, pavucontrol sound meter works.
Everything is unmuted.
For me, my system is an xps14. It has "smart" switch when headphones plugged in, quite a poor system, but it does allow 3 or 4 pole headphones (for inline mic) on the 1 jack.

I cannot generater any sound.

[ccoffey@Fatbot ~]$ aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: ALC3260 Analog [ALC3260 Analog]
  Subdevices: 0/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 7: HDMI 1 [HDMI 1]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

if you make any progress, please do post your steps, and I will do the same.

ccoffey

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Registered: 2014-11-04

Posts: 15

Re: Suddenly all sound stop playing

My most useful error is

$ aplay -D plughw:0,0 /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Right.wav
aplay: main:722: audio open error: Device or resource busy

netpumber

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Registered: 2009-09-20

Posts: 134

Re: Suddenly all sound stop playing

My PC is playing it but no sound cames out.

% aplay -D plughw:0,0 /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Right.wav                                                                                                                                                       
Playing WAVE '/usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Right.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 48000 Hz, Mono

Last edited by netpumber (2014-11-05 12:38:09)

netpumber

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Registered: 2009-09-20

Posts: 134

Re: Suddenly all sound stop playing

i removed the pulse-audio (pacman -Rns) and still i have no sound. I m start thinking the possibility of the sound card to be burned.

Edit:
Here is the result of lspci -nn
Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family High Definition Audio Controller [8086:27d8] (rev 01)

Last edited by netpumber (2014-11-05 21:40:15)

TadaenSylvermane

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Registered: 2014-01-24

Posts: 34

Re: Suddenly all sound stop playing

Not sound card. I too am having the same issue. Bluetooth sound works fine, just no onboard. Can't find any errors relating.

[2014-11-05 13:37] [PACMAN] upgraded libvirt (1.2.9-2 -> 1.2.10-1)
[2014-11-05 13:37] [PACMAN] upgraded libwbclient (4.1.12-1 -> 4.1.13-1)
[2014-11-05 13:37] [PACMAN] upgraded smbclient (4.1.12-1 -> 4.1.13-1)
[2014-11-05 13:37] [PACMAN] upgraded samba (4.1.12-1 -> 4.1.13-1)

Only updates I got today, was working great yesterday.

ccoffey

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Registered: 2014-11-04

Posts: 15

Re: Suddenly all sound stop playing

In my case it was infact a hardware issue. Had to get a new motherboard in my laptop. Very odd, everything else worked.