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Old 08-20-2017, 05:38 PM   #1
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Mint 18.1 no sound

I have a quad-boot machine. Win7 on the boot ssd, Zorin, Linux Lite, and Mint 18.1 on a one of the three 1tb HDD.Sound works on all but Mint. Also, You-Tubes run extremely fast and are useless. If reinstall Mint I'll have to redo all three Linux distros.
 
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Open alsamixer in the terminal and make sure that nothing in muted.
This is muted [mm] This is not muted [00]

Is pavucontrol installed?

If not you can use the Software Center or Synaptic to install it:-
 
Old 08-21-2017, 04:26 PM   #3
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If reinstall Mint I'll have to redo all three Linux distros.
Why do you think that?
 
  


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