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Missing audio output after using gnome sound-recorder

Asked by Todd Edelman

I used Gnome Sound Recorder 2.32.0 and somehow turned off the audio input. Then I re-configured the audio in Sound Preferences but have not been able to get the audio output to work. Nothing is muted. I tried re-installing Sound Recorder but it did not help. Is there something in Synaptic Package Manager which can help?

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Todd Edelman (edelman-greenidea) said : 		#1

The hardware is visible in Sound Preferences and the input audio does work (confirmed by visual signal level in Skype.)

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Best actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#2

Try:

killall pulseaudio; rm -r ~/.pulse*

Wait 10 seconds, reboot

HTH

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Todd Edelman (edelman-greenidea) said : 		#3

Thanks actionparsnip, that solved my question.

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Todd Edelman (edelman-greenidea) said : 		#4

actionparsnip: Fantastic! If you could explain what happened I would appreciate it. - T

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#5

The ~/.pulse and ~/.pulse-cookie files hold the settings for pulse, just like ~/.purple holds the config for pidgin and so forth.

You killed pulse and deleted it's config, when it restarted (hence the wait), the files get recreated. This is common for apps and is great as you can backup settings easily. With the new default config you rebooted and the vanilla configs were used.

When you were messing with settings you probably set something that pulse doesn't like so you got no sound, the command just set them to defaults...