I inadvertently tried watching a avi file before it had finished downloading. Now, my alsa S/PDIF output is no longer working.
I have checked all the settings in alsa mixer, and everything appears normal and not muted. When I boot from a live cd, sound works fine. Also tried reinstalling gstreamer. I am getting sound from the headphone jack.
Using Mint 7 amd64. Short of doing a complete reinstall, can anyone suggest anything? Thank you.
Broke My Sound
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Re: Broke My Sound
Try first to reload ALSA
sudo killall pulseaudio
sudo alsa force-reload
and them go to System>Preferences>Sound and change everything to ALSA
see:
http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=48&t=33291
EDIT: Aduka created a script for fixing this problem automatically
see:
http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=90&t=33559
sudo killall pulseaudio
sudo alsa force-reload
and them go to System>Preferences>Sound and change everything to ALSA
see:
http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=48&t=33291
EDIT: Aduka created a script for fixing this problem automatically
see:
http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=90&t=33559
Re: Broke My Sound
I made a cleaner post of how to make the script: http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=48&t=33575
Hope it helps,
Aduka
Hope it helps,
Aduka
Re: Broke My Sound
Thank you for the input. When I run sudo alsa force-reload, I get the following and still no sound. Thoughts?
peter@multimedia ~ $ sudo alsa force-reload
lsof: WARNING: can't stat() fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon file system /home/peter/.gvfs
Output information may be incomplete.
Terminating processes: 4077lsof: WARNING: can't stat() fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon file system /home/peter/.gvfs
Output information may be incomplete.
4327lsof: WARNING: can't stat() fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon file system /home/peter/.gvfs
Output information may be incomplete.
lsof: WARNING: can't stat() fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon file system /home/peter/.gvfs
Output information may be incomplete.
.
lsof: WARNING: can't stat() fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon file system /home/peter/.gvfs
Output information may be incomplete.
Unloading ALSA sound driver modules: snd-hda-intel snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss snd-pcm snd-seq-dummy snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi snd-rawmidi snd-seq-midi-event snd-seq snd-timer snd-seq-device snd-page-alloc.
Loading ALSA sound driver modules: snd-hda-intel snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss snd-pcm snd-seq-dummy snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi snd-rawmidi snd-seq-midi-event snd-seq snd-timer snd-seq-device snd-page-alloc.
peter@multimedia ~ $ sudo alsa force-reload
lsof: WARNING: can't stat() fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon file system /home/peter/.gvfs
Output information may be incomplete.
Terminating processes: 4077lsof: WARNING: can't stat() fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon file system /home/peter/.gvfs
Output information may be incomplete.
4327lsof: WARNING: can't stat() fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon file system /home/peter/.gvfs
Output information may be incomplete.
lsof: WARNING: can't stat() fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon file system /home/peter/.gvfs
Output information may be incomplete.
.
lsof: WARNING: can't stat() fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon file system /home/peter/.gvfs
Output information may be incomplete.
Unloading ALSA sound driver modules: snd-hda-intel snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss snd-pcm snd-seq-dummy snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi snd-rawmidi snd-seq-midi-event snd-seq snd-timer snd-seq-device snd-page-alloc.
Loading ALSA sound driver modules: snd-hda-intel snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss snd-pcm snd-seq-dummy snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi snd-rawmidi snd-seq-midi-event snd-seq snd-timer snd-seq-device snd-page-alloc.
Re: Broke My Sound
Digging around, I found these commands:
Code:
sudo apt-get --purge remove linux-sound-base alsa-base alsa-utils
(2) Reinstall those same packages
Code:
sudo apt-get install linux-sound-base alsa-base alsa-utils
Code:
sudo apt-get --purge remove linux-sound-base alsa-base alsa-utils
(2) Reinstall those same packages
Code:
sudo apt-get install linux-sound-base alsa-base alsa-utils
- VERY IMPORTANT NOTE: Ubuntu (GNOME) users have reported that packages 'gdm' and 'ubuntu-desktop' are removed after removing the linux-sound-base packages.
After running these and resetting everything in volume control, I have sound again!!
Re: Broke My Sound
'ubuntu-desktop' is a meta package, it can be safely removed.
GNOME Display Manager (gdm) can be reinstalled
Your magic commands may also update ALSA, I presume.
The ALSA hackers tend to recommend this too:
ALSA Upgrade Script
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=6589810
EDIT:
QUOTE: "users have reported that packages 'gdm' ..."
this is because of "login sound".
That is why gdm depends on ALSA.
GNOME Display Manager (gdm) can be reinstalled
Your magic commands may also update ALSA, I presume.
The ALSA hackers tend to recommend this too:
ALSA Upgrade Script
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=6589810
EDIT:
QUOTE: "users have reported that packages 'gdm' ..."
this is because of "login sound".
That is why gdm depends on ALSA.