Lost audio after upgrading from 13.10 to 14.04

After the upgrade I've lost the audio output immediately: no hardware change !

With Kubuntu 14.04 Kernel 3.13.0-24-generic (#47-Ubuntu SMP Fri May 2 23:31:42 UTC 2014) - the audio doesn't work at all.

All my ALSA information is located at http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=9fb68b073380ba8bb16213bef8843b2a6bf54557

The audio drive seems correctly loaded but it doesn't work.


You have 2 sound devices on your pc:
First one is HDMI output, second one is the main device which has several faders muted,
( Note at the end ).

Two ways to unmute the second device:

1. Unmute with Pulseaudio volume control:

  • Open Pulseaudio volume control from Applications/sound menu, (if not present, sudo apt-get install pavucontrol )
  • Select output device tab
  • Scroll down to display the second device.
  • Click "set as fallback" button to set it as default device, check "mute" button state, increase volume using the fader, hopefully you will hear sound.

2. Unmute using Alsamixer:

  • In a terminal, launch alsamixer.You will see something like this:
    http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/86/Alsamixer.png
  • Press F6 , select the second device (Just in case you are unfamiliar with console applications, use arrow keys to highlight the 2nd device then press enter key) .
  • Use left/right arrows key to move around faders, up/down arrows to increase volume and "m" key to unmute.

Note:
Extract from your alsa-info showing 2 devices and muted Master fader:
search in the Amixer output section:

!!Amixer output !!-------------

!!-------Mixer controls for card 0 [Generic] <=== first device
....some lines....
!!-------Mixer controls for card 1 [Generic_1] <=== second device
....some lines....
Simple mixer control 'Master',0
....some lines....
Mono: Playback 28 [67%] [-21.00dB] [off] <==== Master is off