Help with sound

[Kevin O'Gorman]

On Sun, Jul 5, 2015 at 11:50 PM, Petter Adsen <petter at synth.no> wrote:

> On Sun, 5 Jul 2015 14:22:24 -0700
> "Kevin O'Gorman" <kogorman at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I've had no sound with Xubuntu on this system since I switched to HDMI
> > monitors.  This has been true on two different motherboards.  I
> > suspect it's because the HDMI monitors do NOT support sound, but the
> > HDMI interface does.  I do not find sound controls on these monitors,
> > or menu options about sound.
> >
> > The current motherboard has a built-in sound system as well, I have
> > attached speakers, and when I dual-boot to Windows 7, that's what it
> > uses and sound works just fine.  So I suspect Xubuntu is detecting
> > HDMI and trying to send sound there.
> >
> > I tried turning off HDMI sound in gmusicbrowser, but it still stayed
> > silent.  I'm not sure what else i can do or try.
> >
> > Help, please.
>
> Try pavucontrol and/or alsamixer, and make sure the correct output is
> selected and not muted.
>
>
> They both exist, which is good.  I could not get either one to make sound
come to the speakers.

The controls in alsamixer were a bit confusing in that I was not able to
change some things, did not understand what some of them were, and never
found basic stuff like "mute" to un-mute it with.

So I tried pavucontrol, in which I was able to turn off HDMI/Display Port,
turn on Built-in analog stereo services, and see that the sound was being
sent somewhere (I was playing a youtube video, and could see movement.
There was still, however, not a peep from the speakers.  These speakers,
remember,  make lots of noise for Windows 7 when I boot to that.

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