help, I messed up my sound system!

**gandaran** · May 5th, 2009

I installed this alsa-driver-linuxant package then removed it now I don't have any sound, on sound volume control I only have the master volume option all other options have simply disappeared, I reinstalled all pulseaudio and alsa plus libasound packages but still no sound, how can I fix this?

**jobbesat** · May 5th, 2009

Try this

**Insanity01** · May 5th, 2009

Install ALSA, it should work ^^

**neu2buntu** · May 5th, 2009

try this code.... copy and paste into terminal

Code:

killall pulseaudio

sudo alsa force-reload

pulseaudio -D

**gandaran** · May 5th, 2009

many thanks to all
I fixed it installing module-assistant then choose to build alsa-source
it's not what I wanted but well sound is working.

**stakh** · May 5th, 2009

Originally Posted by neu2buntu

try this code.... copy and paste into terminal

Code:

killall pulseaudio

sudo alsa force-reload

pulseaudio -D

Can you please explain these commands?

upon doing sudo alsa force-reload, the system asks scary questions like "do you want kde to forget about your devices?"

**stakh** · May 5th, 2009

also, when I do $pulseaudio -D, I get:

$ pulseaudio -D
I: caps.c: Limited capabilities successfully to CAP_SYS_NICE.
I: caps.c: Dropping root privileges.
I: caps.c: Limited capabilities successfully to CAP_SYS_NICE.
E: main.c: daemon initialization failed.