Help... No Sound

[Guest]

Ok so I couldn't get my touchpad to disable so I edited my xorg.conf, now I have no sound.

This is all I added

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier "Synaptics Touchpad"
	Driver "synaptics"
	Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
	Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
	Option "Protocol" "auto-dev"
	Option "SHMConfig" "true"
	Option "MaxTapTime" "150"
	Option "MaxDoubleTapTime" "150"
	Option "VertEdgeScroll" "1"
	Option "HorizEdgeScroll" "1"
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
	Identifier "Default Layout"
	Screen "Default Screen"
	InputDevice "Synaptics Touchpad"
EndSection

There is no mention of sound in my xorg.conf but thats all i changed before I lost my sound.

Any ideas?

[josefko]

Re: Help... No Sound

Which version of Kubuntu are you talking about? I have in my xorg.conf in Jaunty this:

Section "Device"
	Identifier	"Configured Video Device"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier	"Configured Monitor"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier	"Default Screen"
	Monitor		"Configured Monitor"
	Device		"Configured Video Device"
EndSection

If you have a backup copy - in Kubuntu to make backup is default behaviour of programs for edit - you can return the original file and add lines one by one.

[blackbelt_jones]

Re: Help... No Sound

When I have a problem with no sound in Ubuntu, it's usually a permission problem. See if you can use Kuser to determine if you're a member of the "audio" group. Once you've fixed this, you may have to log out and back in to get your audio started.

Now, if that doesn't work, you may want to try using the adduser command to create another normal account. Make sure that account is a member of the audio group and if it works, you can make that your new home account, or if you'd rather not, at least you know that your problem exists in your home account and not in the system files.

[blackbelt_jones]

Re: Help... No Sound

or maybe you can just reconfigure X-org?


reboot

boot in single user (console) mode

type:

sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

follow the prompts, then reboot into the usual mode. It's something I'd try.