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