Sound problems after regular updates 12.04.1LTS

[T_W]

Hallelujah, the fix to analog-output-headphones.conf worked for me as well.

How did you find this information and more importantly, does Canonical know about this bug?

Dear Canonical,

I am much more likely to buy music from your music store or MP3's via your 'shopping lens' if my PC is actually able to play sounds.

It really has all been downhill for Ubuntu multimedia since PulseAudio was brought onboard *sigh*

[Afro86]

[SOLVED] ... see below

Now have a permanent fix by doing this:

$ sudo nano /usr/share/pulseaudio/alsa-mixer/paths/analog-output-headphones.conf

# look for the following lines

[Element Speaker]
switch = off
volume = off

# change the above lines so that they look like this

[Element Speaker]
switch = mute
volume = zero

# repeat the process for the second headphone configuration file

$ sudo nano /usr/share/pulseaudio/alsa-mixer/paths/analog-output-headphones-2.conf

# look for the following lines

[Element Speaker]
switch = off
volume = off

# change the above lines so that they look like this

[Element Speaker]
switch = mute
volume = zero

Reboot the machine -- and this should work. NOTE: I am on HP Pavilion dv7 - Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, 64 bit. If the above does not do the trick on your machine, you may also have to enable the line for [Element Front] in the same manner as above (in both configuration files).

B.