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    Unhappy Audio suddenly stopped working on Ibex. Only faint static now.

    Yesterday I noticed that audio was no longer playing on my Ibex system. Now all I get is some faint static. I know it's not a hardware issue because sound still works fine when I boot into Vista. I have not made any major changes to my setup. One thing though. Yesterday I had my system shutdown improperly (for what reason, I can't remember) and while shutting down the console seemed to hang on some line which said something about ALSA. Since I wasn't really paying attention at the time, I didn't think anything of it. Now that my audio stopped working, I realized that ALSA has something to do with audio.

    So far I have followed the instructions on another thread on reinstalling the audio/ALSA components in Ubuntu, but that didn't work. If I go to Preferences->Sound in gnome and switch the playback to OSS, the test sound works. When it's set to ALSA or Autodetect all I get is the static on the test sounds. However, even with OSS selected for playback, I only get static when trying to play any sounds outside of that sound settings page. I really haven't changes anything. My sound's just broke.

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    Re: Audio suddenly stopped working on Ibex. Only faint static now.

    See: http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php...37&postcount=3

    Note: you must explicitly define your hardware soundcard when invoking alsamixer:
    Code:
    $ alsamixer -Dhw

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    Re: Audio suddenly stopped working on Ibex. Only faint static now.

    Not really sure what that did there, but it seems to have worked.

    Quote Originally Posted by psyke83 View Post
    See: http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php...37&postcount=3

    Note: you must explicitly define your hardware soundcard when invoking alsamixer:
    Code:
    $ alsamixer -Dhw

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    Re: Audio suddenly stopped working on Ibex. Only faint static now.

    Quote Originally Posted by psyke83 View Post
    Thanks for the link. I had the same problem which was caused by the PCM volume slider being turned all the way down as described in that post.

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    Re: Audio suddenly stopped working on Ibex. Only faint static now.

    Thanks, I had the exact same problem PCM volume at Zero anyone know the cause? I had recently installed ffmpeg and handbrake. Anyone else?

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