I have a Dell xps13 that previously had 14.04 and the sound worked fine. I recently installed 18.04 and now I have no sound through either my speakers or headphones. The sound settings look like this:
(Note that there is no 'Test Sound' button. )
[Edit] I've already tried many of the fixes I've found on AskUbuntu, including:
pulseaudio -k && sudo alsa force-reload
(nothing changes)- I've tried reinstalling
alsa
andpulseaudio
. [/Edit]
I'm now following the Ubuntu troubleshooting guide for sound.
At step 3, entering wget -O alsa-info.sh http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-info.sh && chmod +x ./alsa-info.sh && ./alsa-info.sh
yields the output: https://pastebin.com/raw/44UDnp63
Running the code in step 4 yields https://pastebin.com/raw/YinifjQC
I've checked with pavucontrol
to make sure that nothing is muted. This is what the panel looks like:
(The lower bar indicates that sound is playing, but I don't hear anything out of the speakers/headphones.)
Please help!
Edit:
As per Muntaha's suggestion, I tried
mv ~/.config/pulse ~/.config/old_pulse
and restarted. Now I have only dummy output listed:
The standard answer online to fix the 'dummy output' problem is to run pulseaudio -k && sudo alsa force-reload
but this does nothing. Trying to figure out what to do now…
Further edit:
As per the solution to this question "Dummy Output" No sound in Ubuntu 16.04:
In the end, I rebooted into the bios and disabled the built-in audio, applied those changes, rebooted to Ubuntu, then rebooted again into the bios to re-enable the audio. Once back into Ubuntu after that, everything seemed to work great!
This also worked for me!
Best Answer
Go to your home directory and then go to the hidden config directory. Rename the directory named pulse here:
Now reboot your system. The pulse directory should be created afresh and you should have sound.