[Tfug] No sound, Ubuntu 8.10

[Claude Rubinson]

On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 04:26:49AM +0000, arizray at comcast.net wrote:
> A common error occurs after upgrading to Ubuntu 8.10 whereby the
> sound does not work. I have perused several forums and tried several
> fixes to no avail. I went into system>preferences>sound and tried to
> test and reset parameters but that doesn't work.

Are you sure that the sound's not just muted?  Alsa mixer defaults to
turning sound off.  Open a terminal and execute "alsamixer" and make
sure that the sound's turned on.

C.