No sounds after upgrade [closed]

I also lost my sound when upgrading to 13.10.

To fix it, I ran this in Terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T):

sudo alsa force-reload

Did a restart, and everything was working perfectly.


I got mine working when I looked at this document:

The issue was that I needed to add some permissions to my user. Easy to tell if that's the fix because aplay -l will say no soundcards but sudo aplay -l lists some. This was my fix:

sudo usermod -aG audio,video,pulse,pulse-access frew