On Friday, 25 March 2022 00:07:30 GMT Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 23/03/2022 18:50, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > The USB sound dongle on this workstation has stopped working, but only for > > me. The system settings Audio setup window detects it but no sound is > > heard > Run "alsamixer" (it's a command-line tool) and in the text UI that > appears, press F6, select your USB audio device, and then check if it's > muted or the volume is 0.
No alsamixer here, so I installed alsa-utils and did as you suggest. All seems fine: volume at full, muting off. > PulseAudio generally uses the ALSA sound mixer to change volumes, but > not always. For some devices, it uses a software volume control that > doesn't use the ALSA volume controls. So if those are set to 0, there > will never be any sound. There was sound just fine until one day last week. I'm not aware of any change by which I could have affected sound - just routine daily upgrades and ordinary use of the system. -- Regards, Peter.
