In /var/lock, I have two files which I would probably erase if I were trying to get a sound card playing. Those are card0.lock and asound.state.lock. Then if on a gui system I'd run alsamixer and hit f6 and choose a card from the list with arrows and enter then hit escape and then do speaker-test and see what happened. If speaker-test worked, I'd then do alsactl store then reboot and see if the change held.
-- 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 Jude, > Thanks for the idea, here's what came back: > lenny@lenny-desktop:~$ amixer sset pcm 100% unmute graphic 192 amixer: > Unable to find simple control 'pcm',0 > > lenny@lenny-desktop:~$ aplay -l > graphic 545 **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices **** > > card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: ALC283 Analog [ALC283 Analog] > Subdevices: 1/1 > Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 > card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 1: ALC283 Digital [ALC283 Digital] > Subdevices: 1/1 > graphic 545 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 > > card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0] > Subdevices: 1/1 > Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jude DaShiell" <[email protected]> > To: "K0LNY_Glenn" <[email protected]>; > <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, March 27, 2023 6:57 PM > Subject: Re: OT, Ubuntu Sound Trouble > > > 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 > > > > > >
