No Sound After LXDE Install (SOLVED)

[bcat23]

I just did a fresh LXDE install from the latest iso and have no sound. I have tried playing .mp3 and .mpg. I have tried using vlc, totem, and rhythmbox. I checked alsamixer and the volumes for the channels are turned up.

According to PCC, my sound card is ATI Technologies Inc|SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA). The installed driver is "snd_hda_intel".

I looked at the sound troubleshooting tips and here is the output that I get from the command "/sbin/chkconfig --list alsa":

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alsa           0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off 7:off
I have used PCLOS LXDE previously before this install (gave Zen Mini a whirl and decided that LXDE suited my fancy better   ) and never had problems with audio when using vlc.

Does anybody have any ideas on how to get my sound back? Thanks.

[Rudge]

You might try running "alsaconf" from a root CLI and letting it try to detect and setup your sound card from scratch. This has almost always worked for me.

Open a CLI, enter "su" enter your root password and then enter "alsaconf" follow the prompts, it's pretty straight forward.  Worth a shot.  

[uncleV]

I just did a fresh LXDE install from the latest iso and have no sound. I have tried playing .mp3 and .mpg. I have tried using vlc, totem, and rhythmbox. I checked alsamixer and the volumes for the channels are turned up.

Not muted also?

[bcat23]

Thanks for the replies. I did try alsaconf and that did not work. The volume was shown as un-muted in the system tray. So I tried going in to PCCC and enabling Pulse Audio. I then rebooted the computer. When I logged in again, the volume was shown as muted in the system tray. I un-muted the volume and voila-I have sound now!

I am not sure what caused this problem-but I am happy to have it fixed.  

[uncleV]

So I tried going in to PCCC and enabling Pulse Audio.

I am not sure what caused this problem-but I am happy to have it fixed.  

I am almost sure you don't have installed PulseAudio. You can check that in Synaptic.

[bcat23]

It looks like I do have pulse audio installed.

When I enabled pulse audio, PCCC installed a software plug-in. Maybe the missing plug-in fixed it? I am not sure which plug-in was added-I think it was libalsa-plugins-pulseaudio. Somehow the volume was muted but the volume control in the system tray was indicating that the volume was turned up.