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Ubuntu – No Sound After Installing XFCE/Xubuntu
Sometimes after installing XFCE/Xubuntu along side Ubuntu LightDM the configuration for your present and active sound devices will get overwritten or removed. The first thing you should do is go to “Application Menu -> Multimedia -> Pulse Volume Control” Click the “Configuration” tab and check what audio devices it is listing. If it doesn’t display any skip to the section titled “Update”.
Check:
Configuration
Output Devices
If it shows your sound devices click the “Output Devices” tab and make sure the sound device which should be outputting sound is not muted and that it has “Speakers” or “Headphones” in the “port” dropdown box which ever the case may be. Your sound should be functional now
Update:
If the “Configuration” tab doesn’t show any of your audio devices run the following commands from a terminal window.
killall pulseaudio; rm -r ~/.config/pulse/* ; rm -r ~/.pulse* If it says it couldn't remove the files in question it means pulse never created them when it was loaded.
Now run the following commands from terminal, once they have completed reboot your computer, once you are back in XFCE open “Pulse Volume Control” and follow the directions from the section titled Check.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-audio-dev/ppa; sudo apt-get update;sudo apt-get dist-upgrade; sudo apt-get install pavucontrol linux-sound-base alsa-base alsa-utils lightdm ubuntu-desktop linux-image-`uname -r` libasound2; sudo apt-get -y –reinstall install linux-sound-base alsa-base alsa-utils lightdm ubuntu-desktop linux-image-`uname -r` libasound2; killall pulseaudio; rm -r ~/.pulse*; ubuntu-support-status; sudo usermod -aG `cat /etc/group | grep -e ‘^pulse:’ -e ‘^audio:’ -e ‘^pulse-access:’ -e ‘^pulse-rt:’ -e ‘^video:’ | awk -F: ‘{print $1}’ | tr ‘\n’ ‘,’ | sed ‘s:,$::g’` `whoami`
Johnny October 28th, 2013
Tags: active sound devices, audio devices, no sound, pulse, pulse audio, Pulse Volume Control, pulseaudio, sound, sound card, sound device, ubuntu 10, ubuntu 11, ubuntu 12, ubuntu xfce, xfce, xfce4
Wine – No sound/garbled sound ubuntu 11.XX + 32 bit / 64 bit
Having trouble with sound not playing properly (sounding garbled or staticy) or have no sound at all when using wine? There are two solutions which should resolve this issue for you quickly.
The first is using winetricks to change your sound driver to ASLA rather than using the default pulse audio drivers.
From the application launcher open winetricks, if you do not have winetricks installed you can do so quickly using the ubuntu software center or the SynapticPackage Manager.
Once you have opened winetricks select the default prefix or the prefix of whichever virtual instance you are having sound issues with.
Once you have selected the prefix you need to change select “change settings” from the menu and a list of configurable settings will be displayed.
Once the settings menu comes up you are going to scroll down until you find the setting “sound=alsa” select this and click “Ok”. Your sound should now be working and clear.
Another way to resolve this sound issue is to install ia32-libs and ia32-libs-multiarch through synaptic package manager. These two packages will also update a number of packages relating to pulse sound. Once you have installed these packages you will need to reboot to load the new libraries. It is important that you reboot and not just log out. Logging out will not load the updated libraries.
Once rebooted your sound should be working properly in wine.
Johnny October 9th, 2013
Posted In: How To
Tags: no sound, sound, Ubuntu, ubuntu 11, wine, wine no sound