On 16.04.2014 18:10, Someone wrote:
FWIW, I've just reinstalled alsa-plugins-pulseaudio and rebooted.
While
the widget seems to be here to stay, the only channel remains "Dummy
Output", and sound still doesn't play.
On 04/17/2014 12:01 AM, Someone wrote:
>> What is your make/model laptop?
>
> It's a Lenovo Thinkpad.
>
>> Not familiar with laptops....but I suppose their audio device still sits on the
PCI bus.... What does....
>>
>> lspci | grep -i audio
>>
>> show?
>
> 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio
> Controller (rev 03)
>
> Does that help?
>
> I was able to figure out that the program responsible for the
> notification area audio widget is PNMixer, and I was able to get it back
> by running:
>
> pnmixer
>
> Unfortunately, however, it's only the icon, and my sound hasn't returned
> with it. :(
>
$ lspci -knn | grep -P '(?=.*driver)(?=.*snd)'
$ lsmod | grep snd
$ grep pulseaudio /var/log/messages
$ grep -P '(?=.*avc)(?=.*pulseaudio)' /var/log/messages*
# ausearch -m avc -c pulseaudio
$ pactl stat
$ pactl info
$ pactl list
$ pactl list sinks
$ pactl -h
$ man 1 pactl
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