I haven't upgraded any of my alsa packages with swaret or anything. Yesterday I was able to hear sound fine, but today alsa just doesn't work. First I tried alsaconf, which couldn't detect my sound device. I then tried again later (after turning my speakers on) and it recognized it, and I let it go through its configuration. It then ran rcalsasound start and said that it had started successfully. I then opened kmix and put all the volumes to their max. I then tried listening to a song in JuK, but there is still no audio. Even rebooting wouldn't fix this. What is wrong? Why is my sound all of a sudden for no reason not working?

in kmix, are all channals unmuted ( green leds ) ?

egag

Yep, all green.

well...very strange thing.
did you upgrade any other packages or so...?

thing shouldn't just stop working eh......

egag

I haven't updated with swaret for a couple days, definitely before yesterday, when the sound was working fine. I make it a point to NOT upgrade alsa, and I even when as far as to reinstall all my alsa packages from my install cd (and the alsa utils and stuff) but that didn't fix it either. It is very strange...

well...maybe stupid guess, but did you also run #alsamixer ? ( just to check...)

egag

yep ran alsamixer. I was able to move all of them except 2 up all the way. I think it was the 3rd one and the last one that I couldn't move for some reason. hm..