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On Friday, 25 March 2022 00:07:30 GMT Nikos Chantziaras wrote: |
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> On 23/03/2022 18:50, Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> > The USB sound dongle on this workstation has stopped working, but only for |
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> > me. The system settings Audio setup window detects it but no sound is |
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> > heard |
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> Run "alsamixer" (it's a command-line tool) and in the text UI that |
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> appears, press F6, select your USB audio device, and then check if it's |
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> muted or the volume is 0. |
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No alsamixer here, so I installed alsa-utils and did as you suggest. All seems |
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fine: volume at full, muting off. |
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> PulseAudio generally uses the ALSA sound mixer to change volumes, but |
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> not always. For some devices, it uses a software volume control that |
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> doesn't use the ALSA volume controls. So if those are set to 0, there |
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> will never be any sound. |
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There was sound just fine until one day last week. I'm not aware of any change |
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by which I could have affected sound - just routine daily upgrades and ordinary |
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use of the system. |
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Regards, |
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Peter. |
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