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On Mon, 2006-05-01 at 15:51 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: |
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> On Mon, 2006-05-01 at 15:39 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: |
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> > On Tue, 2006-05-02 at 06:52 +1200, Glenn Enright wrote: |
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> > > On Tuesday 02 May 2006 2:47 am, Michael Sullivan wrote: |
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> > > > The sound stopped working on my wife's computer about a week ago. I've |
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> > > > run every test I can think of and can't seem to track the problem |
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> > > > down. /etc/init.d/alsasound starts up fine. I can run alsamixer on her |
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> > > > computer just fine (on my computer, when ALSA isn't working I can't open |
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> > > > alsamixer); she has the volume control applet running on her panel, but |
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> > > > there simply is no sound. |
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> > > |
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> > > Its probably a bit off, but do you have a cat? Some get their whiskers in a |
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> > > twist about the nice clean continuous line that forms cabling. Check that any |
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> > > speaker cables and the plug in back of your comp hasn't been left dangling in |
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> > > the wind... |
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> > |
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> > My wife has a cat that likes to make trouble like that, but I checked |
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> > the back of her PC and everything seems to be plugged in where it's |
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> > supposed to be. Still no sound. What confuses me is that it works |
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> > perfectly in Windows XP. My wife's monitor is one that has the speakers |
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> > built onto the monitor. She sometimes asks to borrow my headphones so |
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> > she can do her labs for French class without disturbing me. I can't |
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> > seem to find where she plugs the headphones in at, but I'll ask her when |
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> > she gets home. It can't hurt to try, right? |
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> I fixed it. I feel really stupid about it too. When I was helping her |
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> to diagnose the problem, I asked her to open the volume control and make |
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> sure everything was turned up all the way. She said it was, and when I |
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> checked in alsamixer, everything was turned up all the way. However, |
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> when I sat down at her computer and opened the volume control applet, |
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> the PCM was turned all the way down. I raised the level and now the |
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> sound works again... |
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And I forgot to mark it solved... |
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