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Hi all,
I have Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS. Everything worked fine. I had installed wine and yesterday, I started the application 'pockettanks.exe' on my Ubuntu with wine (Pocket Tanks is a simple and small Windows game). After a restart, there is no sound anymore. I have tried re-installing alsa and pulseaudio but in vain. Please help.
Distribution: OpenSUSE 13.2 64bit-Gnome on ASUS U52F
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Have you had the chance to go into the system settings and select your audio output, I think you can select from there sound out of your headphone jack or from speakers.
I tried it but it didn't work. I use speakers in-built into my monitor. But when I plug in my headphone, I can hear sounds. Only my speakers are not working. I had experienced such a problem earlier with Xubuntu 11.10 and that was with the very same game. I think this problem is common with Ubuntu. I can't remember how I had solved the problem...
Did you only reinstall alsa or tried to configure it with 'alsamixer'?
I don't know about the game you mentioned, but in my experience, there were instances when I was not been able to set/rectify volume with pulseaudio/default-icon/whatever... in the GUI. However, when I tried 'alsamixer' command I could see some of the controls (Master/Headphone/Speaker/PCM) set to 'MM'. Navigating to those controls and pressing m (to toggle between mute and unmute) which changes 'MM' to '00' and adjusting volume has _always_ worked.
Unless you have already tried, may be your 'Speaker' is set to 'MM'.
Had many similar sound issues and switched to SuSE after using kubuntu for 5 years. ubuntu/kubuntu has sound issues. I do not say it is not a good OS, but don't feel alone. SuSE has other problems.... BUT I would rather be a penguin fighter than a common sheep {:->)
You might want to look at pulseaudio help on google...
Now, when I plug in my headphone, I get an unending beep of extremely high frequency...
I think it's hardware issue. Do you have only Ubuntu on this computer or do you also have other linux/windows. If so can you check if sound is working OK with them? If not can you try with LiveCD? May be you still have Ubuntu CD/USB used for installation. Try in LiveCD mode.
Last edited by saivinoba; 11-17-2013 at 04:58 AM.
Reason: laptop->computer
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