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Vrekk

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Registered: 2009-07-29

Posts: 27

[SOLVED] No more sound

I got on my computer today, and for some reason or another, my sound will just not work. I have tried everything I can think of but I can't get any sound.  If I open a file with VLC I just don't hear anything, but if i open it with Banshee, it crashes.

My first though was that my sound channels got mutted, but alsa mixer dosn't work

ALSA lib control.c:867:(snd_ctl_open_conf) Cannot open shared library /usr/lib/alsa-lib/libasound_module_ctl_pulse.so
cannot open mixer: No such file or directory

Any help would be greatly appreciated

Last edited by Vrekk (2010-05-30 20:57:23)

Vrekk

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Registered: 2009-07-29

Posts: 27

Re: [SOLVED] No more sound

Ok this is really werid now.

I edited my /etc/asound.conf  and now alsamixer just spits out

cannot open mixer: No such file or directory

But I found that if I open program as root, sound works! But not as a normaly user.

Any ideas?

Maximalminimalist

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Registered: 2009-09-20

Posts: 112

Re: [SOLVED] No more sound

Did you add the normal user to the audio group? Maybe you removed the normal user from audio by mistake...

Vrekk

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Registered: 2009-07-29

Posts: 27

Re: [SOLVED] No more sound

Did you add the normal user to the audio group? Maybe you removed the normal user from audio by mistake...

Wow do I feel stupid now or what?  I have no idea how everyone got removed from that group, but sure enough, that was the problem.  Thanks for the help

Maximalminimalist

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Registered: 2009-09-20

Posts: 112

Re: [SOLVED] No more sound

Happened also to me once.

I'm glad it helped. First time I'm not the one asking (for support).^^

Last edited by Maximalminimalist (2010-05-30 21:02:59)