9.10 no sound

[johntinsley]

Hey, this seems to be pretty common but I haven't found a solution that works for me.

I upgraded from 9.04 to 9.10 and now I've no sound. My sound card is recognised etc., cf below and I've checked alsamixer and everything is unmuted. Has anyone got any suggestions?!

Thanks in advance,

john@john-desktop:~$ aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: CA0106 [CA0106], device 0: ca0106 [CA0106]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: CA0106 [CA0106], device 1: ca0106 [CA0106]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: CA0106 [CA0106], device 2: ca0106 [CA0106]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: CA0106 [CA0106], device 3: ca0106 [CA0106]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 2: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 0: ALC888 Analog [ALC888 Analog]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 2: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 1: ALC888 Digital [ALC888 Digital]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 3: HDMI [HDA ATI HDMI], device 3: ATI HDMI [ATI HDMI]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

john@john-desktop:~$ lspci | grep audio
03:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs CA0106 Soundblaster

[Turtle.net]

Do you have PulseAudio Device Chooser installed (and then in your Applications->Sounds...) ?

[johntinsley]

I do. And the volume metre for my sound card is 'showing' sound but I'm not hearing anything...

[Turtle.net]

The Output Channel under PulseAudio Volume Control should be unmuted and selected as "Fall Back".
After that ... i don't know

[witeshark17]

Just for an idea, would a reboot help? I have seen that restart sound.

[johntinsley]

everything's unmuted. all the right things are there (afaik) but there's no sound.

I've rebooted numerous times.

[sonshadowcat]

I'm running into the same problem and don't know what to do anymore. Has no one found a fix yet?

Edit: Installing the pulseaudio volume control fixed it for me. Had to change speaker config and unmute it(was mute by default)

[johntinsley]

I've done the same but still nothing.

Can you look at my screenshot and tell me if it's similar to what you have?

[joshua neff]

I also lost my sound with the upgrade. PulseAudio shows everything to be unmuted & working, but I'm just not hearing anything.

[grozak]

Same problem here. I just now upgraded & no longer have any sound.