On September 16, 2019 6:51:34 PM PDT, Ravi Kumar <rkumar.others@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >Hi, > >I have a fresh install of Ubuntu 18.04 on my tensorbook. Sound works >fine. > >Then I go on to install nvidia-drivers (430.28 to be specific). >nvidia-smi >is all good. But I loose sound. > >I went through a number of steps in the ubuntu sound trouble shooting >procedure and other similar suggestions and was able to narrow it down >to >the following: > >I purge alsa & pulse and reboot > > - sudo apt-get --purge remove linux-sound-base alsa-base alsa-utils > pulseaudio pavucontrol > >Then just install alsa like so > > - sudo apt-get install linux-sound-base alsa-base alsa-utils > >There is sound and I can control it using alsamixer. > >Then I install pulse like so: > > - sudo apt-get install pulseaudio pavucontrol > >No more sound. > >the only way I get it back is to start with purge remove step above, >reboot >and install just alsa and no pulseaudio. > >Any pointers / suggestions on trouble shooting this issue? > >Ravi Have you checked if pulse is maybe just routing the sound to the wrong audio device? HDMI ports will usually show up as a sound card. Try opening "pavucontrol" and seeing which sound cards show up and which is set as the default. --Sean _______________________________________________ pulseaudio-discuss mailing list pulseaudio-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/pulseaudio-discuss
