This may be a known bug. https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=79911
You say alsa is not running. However I believe the sound daemon is either Alsa or OSS, although OSS seems to have been eclipsed by Alsa. Try this in order to unmute everything. amixer -D pulse set Master 1+ toggle Or you could try installing pavucontrol. https://freedesktop.org/software/pulseaudio/pavucontrol/ On 2/20/16, Paul King <[email protected]> wrote: > Content-type: Multipart/Related; boundary="Message-Boundary-8768" > > --Message-Boundary-8768 > No need to apologize. If it is the PCM channel, then I don't know how to > access its information to know if it is muted or not. I noticed that alsa > was > installed but not running (I did a ps | grep as root). Pulseaudio was > actually > running. I didn't know it was a wrapper for Alsa. It appears to be > standalone > going by the docs (I don't see alsa or OSS listed as a pre-requisite or a > system requirement). > > Paul > > On 20 Feb 2016 at 5:43, Russell Reiter wrote: > > Sorry to top post. I meant to say PCM channel. Still haven't had morning > coffee. >> Are you using Alsa, OSS or the Pulseaudio wrapper. I've seen this problem >> > where the Alsa mixer mutes the dsp channel on reboot. >> If you are using Alsa you can try using the alsamixer to unmute the >> channel > and alsactl store to make the settings persistent. >> >> Hope this helps. >> Russell >> >> Sent from mobile. >> >> On Feb 19, 2016 9:17 PM, "Paul King" <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> > I have what I must describe as a strange sound problem under Linux >> > Ubuntu >> > Studio 14.x. The operating system sound is dead, so is sound which ought >> > to >> > come out of media players like VLC. Sound also fails to work in the >> > browser. >> > >> > BUT, it DOES work perfectly under Audacity. I have tried to change the > system >> > settings to the same settings as Audacity, but I haven't been >> > successful. >> > >> > THere was touted to be a window called "Sound Preferences", but when I > clicked >> > on the speaker icon to select "sound preferences" from the dropdown, the >> > > window >> > that came up was "System settings", which only had icons for the >> > printer, >> > desktop and one other thing that had nothing to do with sound that I >> > can't >> > recall. >> > >> > Any ideas? >> > >> > >> > --- >> > Talk Mailing List >> > [email protected] >> > https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk > > > --Message-Boundary-8768-- > --- Talk Mailing List [email protected] https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
