Light DM was muted

[Dave Hunt]

Hi,

On the live cd for 12.04, nothing was muted, and I proceeded with the 
install.  After installing, I started, using the new hard drive system.  
Light Dm was not muted on this first startup.  I did some setup, such as 
restoring some backed-up files, plugged in some preferences, etc.  I did 
a proper shutdown.  When next I started, Light Dm was muted.  Once I 
logged in, the system came up talking.  When the login manager came up 
muted, I tried my media keys, and found that they did not work.  I had 
someone look, and he found that the sound was muted on the login 
manager.  He corrected this with the track pad.  I explored the login 
screen, using flat review, and cannot get to the volume controls for 
this.  The media keys still do not work but they do once I'm logged in.  
BTW, the machine is an Asus 1015 PE (netbook)




Best Regards,



Dave



On 04/27/2012 11:32 PM, Christopher Chaltain wrote:
> I don't recall the details of your messages. Was this off of the Live CD
> or after a fresh install? There's a problem where Ubuntu and other
> distros come up muted on certain systems. I had this problem myself, but
> I don't seem to have it on the just released Precise.
>
> If you've unmuted your system, it should stay unmuted. If it was a
> running system, can you think of anything you did or anything you
> installed which might have muted your system?
>
> Do you know where the media keys are on your system? If you ever think
> your system is muted, you can use these keys to unmute your system. This
> is what I used to do when I was installing ubuntu, but it doesn't look
> like I need to do that anymore.
>
> On 27/04/12 21:25, Dave Hunt wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> You may have heard, in past few days, of my troubles with light dm and
>> orca?  Turns out, it was muted.  I'm wondering how to prevent a
>> recurrence of this?
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>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>>
>>
>> Dave  Hunt.
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