Comment 5 for bug 465672

It doesn't work for me... With PulseAudio set as the preferred sound device and Xine as the backend I still get no sound whatsoever, and no failure messages either. Anything that uses ESD seems to be fine. I installed and used pavucontrols to confirm that sound is not muted in Pulseaudio (which would, I suspect, have made all Gnome apps silent anyway). No luck, no sound. The only unusual element I can think of is that my HP Pavilion dv3 requires specifying a model (hp-dv5) in /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf to get sound to work at all... and yet, since it does in Gnome and all non-KDE apps, I don't know where the problem is.

I second that this is not a duplicate.

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