No sound at all following installation of Kubuntu 11.10

[Phil Thane]

Sound was OK on this machine running Kubuntu 11.04. Fresh install of 11.10 has killed it. No response at all in Pulse Audio volume control

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: alsa-base 1.0.24+dfsg-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.24.
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3
Architecture: i386
AudioDevicesInUse:
 USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
 /dev/snd/controlC0: phil 1572 F.... pulseaudio
 /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p: phil 1572 F...m pulseaudio
Card0.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:0 'CK804'/'NVidia CK804 with ALC850 at irq 22'
   Mixer name : 'Realtek ALC850 rev 0'
   Components : 'AC97a:414c4790'
   Controls : 42
   Simple ctrls : 27
Date: Sun Oct 16 19:52:49 2011
InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release i386 (20111012)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: alsa-driver
Symptom: audio
Title: Bluetooth sound card not detected
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 04/06/2006
dmi.bios.vendor: Phoenix Technologies, LTD
dmi.bios.version: 6.00 PG
dmi.board.name: LP NF4 Series
dmi.board.vendor: DFI Corp,LTD
dmi.board.version: 1.0
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnPhoenixTechnologies,LTD:bvr6.00PG:bd04/06/2006:svn:pn:pvr:rvnDFICorp,LTD:rnLPNF4Series:rvr1.0:cvn:ct3:cvr:

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

Try muting 'IEC958' using alsamixer in a Konsole.

[Phil Thane (phil-pthane)]

Fixed.

Removed, re-installed Pulse Audio, which got the sound output working.

Sound recording using Gnome sound recorder still failed, but works OK with Audacity, so I'll settle for that.

Maybe when installing Sound recorder on a KDE system there is a missing Gnome dependency? My previous system was Ubuntu (Gnome) with KDE installed on top, so I guess there were a lot of Gnome libraries there I don't have with this pure Kubuntu system.

[Marcus Tomlinson (marcustomlinson)]

This release of Ubuntu is no longer receiving maintenance updates. If this is still an issue on a maintained version of Ubuntu please let us know.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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