It may be running pcm in that case you might try amixer Set PCM 100% unmute also check /var/lock/alsa for any files ending in .lck and then try to configure and if you get sound alsactl store.
-- Jude <jdashiel at panix dot com> "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and amo. Please use in that order." Ed Howdershelt 1940. On Mon, 27 Mar 2023, K0LNY_Glenn wrote: > Hi Group, > I have a desktop with Ubuntu 18.something, and I don't want to upgrade the > dist because a newer Python will break my Chirp program that I use for > programming my radios. > But it boots, and I can SSH into it, but I get no audio. > I test it several ways, > aplay file-name > speaker-test > espeak test > I tried: > amixer sset Master 100% unmute > and > amixer sset Headphone 100% unmute > and no errors, but still no audio. > It boots up to the desktop, and I tried to manually run orca, but it must > already be running. > This is a 64 bit desktop with 8 GB of RAM. > It has two headphone jacks, and I'm testing both of them, in case the audio > decided to switch outputs, which it has done before. > Does anyone have any other ideas I can try? > Alsamix is not too screenreader friendly via ssh. > I don't know if I installed something recently that did this, like maybe a > ham radio program. > > Thanks. > > Glenn > >
