Suddenly not getting any sound output. checked volume control, alsamixer etc. They seem okay. I have another os installed (windows 10) where sound is working just fine like usual. But not getting any sound on Budgie. Nothing is muted.
Note: This issue first occurred some years ago when I tried to use ubuntu for the first time. I only got sound by plugging in an earphone. Video playback on any player other than VLC was choppy as hell. Even, while playing on VLC I noticed delays in sound whenever I moved the video forward or backward. I went back to windows until recently, I tried a live Ubuntu Budgie and the sound was working. So, I installed it, was using it for a few days, and since yesterday while watching a video, the sound got abruptly cut off. I tried rebooting and everything, nothing is working. No sound output from speaker or via earphone.
Is this a driver related issue? The sound works if I boot in Windows.
The weirdest thing is that the sound disappeared in the middle of watching a video.
You don’t say anything about the application on which it happened. Given the circumstances, I assume it was a browser and that you also tried with audio players?
Try reloading ALSA and test the sound after rebooting:
sudo alsa force-reload
reboot
If the sound doesn’t come back, try uninstalling ALSA:
sudo apt purge alsa-base
sudo apt autoremove
…and reinstalling it:
sudo apt update
sudo apt install alsa-base
If the sound is still not back, can you post the return of these two lines, please?
Both the terminal feedback and the message are not normal, as if there were a driver or hardware recognition problem.
Before searching for nothing, I’d start by reinstalling, from a new ISO while I’m at it and flashed with Balena Etcher: we’ve seen strange problems solved this way.
Ooh, I forgot to reply to your earlier inquiry. It was VLC player where I was watching a video when I lost the sound. I can’t seem to play any video file properly in any player other than VLC in this laptop. This is indeed a strange problem and I couldn’t find any solution anywhere. I don’t think reinstalling will do any good. Still, I will try it. Thanks.
before you jump into the reinstall route - check if this is a local account issue or a system issue. Create a new user account and login with that. If it still occurs then its a system issue.
Also worth after that to check if its a recent kernel issue - when booting, via the grub screen and advanced option - choose an earlier kernel to boot with.
