pulaseaudio seems to be working, but no sound. after totally deleting audio and spending a week trying to fix it, i have concluded that i am lost.
ubuntu version 12.04
aplay -l
** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices **
card 0: MID [HDA Intel MID], device 0: HDA Generic [HDA Generic]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
the last part of (pkill pulseaudio; sleep 2; pulseaudio -vv) seems to have the word suspended in it a lot?
I: [alsa-sink] alsa-sink.c: Device suspended…
I: [pulseaudio] core.c: All sinks and sources are suspended, vacuuming memory
D: [pulseaudio] module-udev-detect.c: /dev/snd/controlC0 is accessible: yes
removed all audio, oops bad idea, been a week now and need help, thanks
Best Answer
There is a chance you have not initialized alsa, try
If this gets your speaker working again make sure alsa starts every time you boot by following this link