[Tfug] No sound, Ubuntu 8.10

[arizray at comcast.net]

I opened alsamixer and had one column showing a bar into the red zone but 00 at the bottom. I'm not sure how that works.
 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Claude Rubinson <rubinson at u.arizona.edu>
> 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.
> 
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