It seems like I have this issues periodically. If possible, I’d like to fix the issue permanently.
Here is the collection from also-info:
http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=e53946a56de2171e0f1b38fced5069be0b13f290
Thanks!
Ok, so I’m going to try to unwind this a little.
I first became interested in getting sound working – not in general, but on my bose wireless speaker.
Then I found out that I had no sound – at all.
Turns out, that was a stupid-user issue. I have a plug ( without headphones ) that I plug into the headphone jack to try to ensure that the laptop doesn’t make noise. Well, it’s very un-intrusive … so I forgot it was there … But that turned out not to be related to not getting the wireless speaker working.
I had a difficult time getting it to work, but with some random point-and-clicking between these:
- the multimedia option under launcher->application->configure desktop
- kde mixer: mixer: audio setup, mixer: select master channel …
And randomly moving things up and down in alsamixer
… suddenly pavucontrol started working as expected.
… frankly, I forget what else I may have been playing with.
However: this link was useless for me:
https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Intel-HDA_sound_problems
And everything (magically?) seems to be working now.
At least until I attempt to listen to music without the wireless speaker …
Is there a way to make the linux sound experience less confusing? It seems like it’s been a ****-shoot for the last 5 distros that I’ve used.
For reference, here’s the alsa-info for my system now that everything appears to be more or less working:
http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=1e11d15baee708cdb415b6c1a2497c98ecb56b99
We all have to become familiar with the system. A little time and patience, very rewarding.
You could always make a backup of your working PA configuration eg
cp -R ~/.config/pulse/ ~/.config/pulse_backup
then you’re free to change or experiment with PA setting etc, and can always return to a known working state with the backup copy if necessary.