Hi all!

First of all, I have a laptop with debian 8 because my wirelass card is only supported from kernel 3.10 onwards. I have had several issues but I have managed to solve them all and may system was working more or less smoothly.

The issue came when I tried to install skype 4.2, the sound in skype was not working for a bug of skype with the newest versions of pulseaudio. I workaround it by running skype as follows:
$ PULSE_LATENCY_MSEC=60 skype
as pointed out here

Everything seemed ok

The problem came the next time I booted my laptop, there was no sound anymore. I tried to run a sample sound both with my user or root user without success
$ aplay /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav

Also tried "$ alsactl init"

Can anyone help me in how to procced? I am really running out of ideas

Thank you in advance!

This is the output of "lspci -nnvv"

00:03.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor HD Audio Controller [8086:0c0c] (rev 06)
Subsystem: CLEVO/KAPOK Computer Device [1558:3505]
Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx+
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 51
Region 0: Memory at f7a14000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel

00:1b.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset High Definition Audio Controller [8086:8c20] (rev 05)
Subsystem: CLEVO/KAPOK Computer Device [1558:3505]
Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx+
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 50
Region 0: Memory at f7a10000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel

Anybody could give me a hint?

Have you opened Pulse Audio Volume Control and ensured that nothing is muted and the output device is correct?
It may well not be the cause but I know Pulse always defaults to the wrong sound settings on my desktop and randomly decides to mute certain devices now and again.

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You were damn right!

I've turned the sound on again with the audio mixer of xfce though

I have 7 audio cards defined there, and by changing them and unmuting all it started working again.

Thank you!

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You're welcome. I hate when Pulse Audio does that and the first few times it did it I thought an update had trashed my system.
Don't forget to mark the thread solved.

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This thread is marked Solved.

What you should do is delete your post and start a new thread.

Thanks, but it wasn't marked as solved when I posted that, and as it was the same problem posted here. Anyway, I've created a new thread: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...90#post5076890.