no sound in flash in browsers

[Preserved Killick]

Thanks excetara2. I did the removals and then ran the installs you suggested, but didn't find gnome-desktop. I suspected you meant ubuntu-desktop, so I ran that install instead. No sound anywhere.

Not sure what to try next. I haven't been down this road. Suggestions?

[excetara2]

Did you restart after the installs. That should set it back to default sound settings but there is an alsa-info script floating around you can run to provide more information. I'd search for it and post the link to the results after trying the removal and reinstall again. Make sure to reboot after. You should get sound back as it was on the original install. Did you ever change the /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf file previously to get it working because the above will reset that??

[Preserved Killick]

Did you restart after the installs.

Yes. Script wouldn't run. Did do cat /proc/modules.

Did you ever change the /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf file previously to get it working because the above will reset that??

I am not aware that anything I have done would have changed the alsa-base.conf file.

Here is the output of cat /proc/modules. I don't know what this tells me, but you can see that I have two sound cards installed.

binfmt_misc 6587 1 - Live 0xf8044000
snd_hda_codec_realtek 203344 1 - Live 0xf962d000
snd_hda_intel 22005 2 - Live 0xf95d0000
snd_hda_codec 74201 2 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel, Live 0xf95a3000
snd_hwdep 5412 1 snd_hda_codec, Live 0xf9580000
snd_ca0106 31531 2 - Live 0xf956b000
snd_ac97_codec 100646 1 snd_ca0106, Live 0xf9539000
ac97_bus 1002 1 snd_ac97_codec, Live 0xf950e000
snd_pcm_oss 35308 0 - Live 0xf94fc000
snd_mixer_oss 13746 1 snd_pcm_oss, Live 0xf94e4000
snd_pcm 70694 5 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_ca0106,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss, Live 0xf94a5000
snd_seq_dummy 1338 0 - Live 0xf9483000
snd_seq_oss 26722 0 - Live 0xf9471000
snd_seq_midi 4557 0 - Live 0xf945d000
snd_rawmidi 19056 2 snd_ca0106,snd_seq_midi, Live 0xf944b000
snd_seq_midi_event 6003 2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi, Live 0xf9439000
snd_seq 47263 6 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event, Live 0xf9420000
snd_timer 19098 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq, Live 0xf84bc000
snd_seq_device 5700 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq, Live 0xf847c000
fbcon 35102 71 - Live 0xf93e0000
ppdev 5259 0 - Live 0xf8459000
usbhid 36110 0 - Live 0xf8467000
tileblit 2031 1 fbcon, Live 0xf8141000
font 7557 1 fbcon, Live 0xf80f1000
bitblit 4707 1 fbcon, Live 0xf80ea000
snd 54180 22 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hwdep,snd_ca0106,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_seq_oss,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device, Live 0xf811c000
parport_pc 25962 1 - Live 0xf808d000
hid 67032 1 usbhid, Live 0xf80b1000
nvidia 7087672 24 - Live 0xf8c4a000 (P)
softcursor 1189 1 bitblit, Live 0xf8041000
agpgart 31724 1 nvidia, Live 0xf84b2000
intel_rng 2276 0 - Live 0xf8499000
soundcore 6620 1 snd, Live 0xf848c000
snd_page_alloc 7076 3 snd_hda_intel,snd_ca0106,snd_pcm, Live 0xf847f000
vga16fb 11385 1 - Live 0xf8471000
vgastate 8961 1 vga16fb, Live 0xf8462000
lp 7028 0 - Live 0xf8455000
parport 32635 3 ppdev,parport_pc,lp, Live 0xf815a000
ohci1394 26950 0 - Live 0xf8131000
usb_storage 39553 0 - Live 0xf8110000
ieee1394 81181 1 ohci1394, Live 0xf80d4000
via_rhine 19154 0 - Live 0xf80aa000
mii 4381 1 via_rhine, Live 0xf8097000
floppy 53016 0 - Live 0xf807e000
sky2 40807 0 - Live 0xf8051000

[excetara2]

Did you chmod a+x scriptnamehere ?? Its just an info script no reason it shouldn't run.

[excetara2]

Script name is alsa-info.sh

[Preserved Killick]

As I was googling the script, I came across the command ubuntu-bug audio.

I ran that and it launched a gui that asked me some multiple choice questions and began self-testing.

It paused and told me,

"You seem to have configured PulseAudio to use the "pci-0000_00_1b.0" card, while you want output from "CA0106 - CA0106".
Please correct that using pavucontrol or the GNOME volume control. Continue anyway?"

so I ran pavucontrol but this didn't seem to have any way to choose soundcards. Neither did the GNOME volume control, But when I looked in my Applications >> Sound and Video I saw Pulse Audio Volume Control. I don't know when that got installed, but I would swear it wasn't there the last time I'd looked.

At some point, something I monkeyed with fixed things. I now have sound in flash, from Rhythmbox, and in games. I even have system sound when I click a button in the panel.

Excetera2, thank you for hanging in here with me.

Killick

[excetara2]

No worries, sounds like pulse got borked but good to hear its going.

[boofly]

I've had this problem before and after loads of searching the solution was too easy.

Preferences > sound > applications tab ... when playing a video on youtube it should come up: ALSA Plug-in [firefox-bin] and just unmute. If not then search on.

ROFLOL. Worked! Thanks.