Sound gone--need help. solved

[wallowinthemire]

So I've been trying to mess around with the audio settings to see how I could get my microphone capture to work, and when I finally got it to start working, I couldn't record--I could only hear myself through the computer by routing the output to the microphone input. However, once I turned this off, my audio playback no longer worked, so now I'm stuck here. I didn't really change anything substantial, and if I had any idea where to start looking I could probably solve this problem pretty quickly, but I have no clues as to what exactly might have happened while i was switching between the different audio devices and turning on/off different channels. Any help would be appreciated, thanks

[edav]

Hi,

Please right-click on the sound icon of the dashboard and open the mixer (Alsa). Then tell us which channels are displayed and the status of each of them.

edav.

[wallowinthemire]

Well, there are two devices, one is the HDA intel and the other is an Audigy 2

For the latter, the Playback channels are PCM Front, there is a Capture channel and all three are unmuted.
The former shows Master, Headphone, Bass, Treble, 3D Control-Center, 3D Control-Depth, PCM, Line In, CD, Mic, PC Speaker (All are unmuted). There is also a PCM Capture channel that is unmuted.

[edav]

Hmm..."Microphone" and "PC Speaker" are muted in my mixer... and sound works.

Did you change anything in the Mint Control Center's sound applet?

edav.

[wallowinthemire]

Yeah, at some point I changed the default mixer device a few times, but that never seemed to really do anything. Besides that, it doesn't look like there are that many options you can really change. I left all the other options alone. =\

[edav]

try to reset alsa:

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sudo /etc/init.d/alsa-utils reset
sudo /etc/init.d/alsa-utils restart

edav.

[wallowinthemire]

nope--that's a no go. :-\


-------edit--------
after reboot, sound came back after alsa was reset. Thanks

[tawan]

microphone not working

specifically Skype where i need it most
1) can record with sound audacity but skype can't hear me
2) read lots of forums, changed various settings;
ie, not muted, OSS, reset alsa, repaired stuff in package manager (nothing needed repairing)

System: HP dv1000 laptop, mint (gutsy 7.10), intel processor, Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 02)

--- Any tips beyond what I tried? please


EDIT Useful fix (but not for me)
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=314383

basically saying to edit /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base by adding

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options snd-hda-intel model=xyz

at the end (where xyz is your computer manufacruter eg hp, lg, asus