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Moving a volume control kills sound.

Asked by john kirkus

I used Comprehensive Sound Problems Solutions Guide and removed and reinstalled sound packages as suggested. The sound cd played. I moved a volume control - sound ceased. The controls are not muted. I am very new to Linux and may well be doing something stupid, if so sorry in advance! I get Ubuntu start-up sounds, also from Skype.

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Vadym Abramchuck (abramzzz) said : 		#1

What's your soundcard?

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john kirkus (john-kirkus) said : 		#2

**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: AD198x Analog [AD198x Analog]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 1: AD198x Digital [AD198x Digital]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

Thanks for your reply

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john kirkus (john-kirkus) said : 		#3

A further oddity is that the removal and reinstall of sound packages seems to have killed my USB microphone installed in XP on another drive.
This may perhaps be impossible, but I will leave XP sound settings where they are for the time being.

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john kirkus (john-kirkus) said : 		#4

I had to get my XP usb headset back. All XP sound now ok. Repeated the above mentioned purge, then reinstall. Again moving volume control killed the sound. Tried exactly same purge and reinstall but now no sound even on start-up. I shall try to stop tinkering. Hope there is a way of fixing this!

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john kirkus (john-kirkus) said : 		#5

I have tried booting from both Dapper and Edgy live discs. In both cases sound plays until I move the volume control. Then sound is gone until the next re-boot. If this is not a Ubuntu problem at all I should be most grateful to have your views.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) said : 		#6

This question was expired because it remained in the 'Open' state without activity for the last 15 days.

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john kirkus (john-kirkus) said : 		#7

Daniel
No longer using Ubuntu - sorry
John

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Shahar Or (mightyiam) said : 		#8

Dear john,

Ubuntu has progressed MUCH since you had this problem. Please try it out.

Many blessings.

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