Audio Settings Gone

[jbonpland]

Hi guys, i dont know what i did but after tweaking something the volume icon in the task bar is gone, Audio settings is also gone and the volume up/down/mute wont work. Audio works though when i play a video.

How can i fix this issue?

Here is some useful info:
nion@onion-ThinkPad-T420s:~$ aplay -l && arecord -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: CX20590 Analog [CX20590 Analog]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 7: HDMI 1 [HDMI 1]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 8: HDMI 2 [HDMI 2]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
**** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: CX20590 Analog [CX20590 Analog]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

Cheers

[vinnywright]

Aaaand it mite help to know what you were "tweaking" ,,,, and anything else you did just before these things disappeared.

VINNY

[jbonpland]

Aaaand it mite help to know what you were "tweaking" ,,,, and anything else you did just before these things disappeared.

VINNY

So this is my mess: i think the first lines did it:

pulseaudio -k && sudo alsa force-reload
913 rm -r ~/.config/pulse; pulseaudio -k
917 sudo rm -r ~/.config/pulse; pulseaudio -k
921 pulseaudio --start
925 pulseaudio status
926 mv ~/.config/pulse ~/.config/pulse.old
927 pulseaudio --restart
928 pulseaudio -restart
929 pulseaudio -k
930 pulseaudio -start
931 pulseaudio --start
933 pulseaudio --start
934 pulseaudio --check
935 pulseaudio -k
936 pulseaudio -D
937 pulseaudio -D --start
938 pulseaudio --check
939 pulseaudio --start
950 sudo apt-get install pulseaudio
982 pulseaudio --start
988 pulseaudio --start
989 sudo pulseaudio --start
990 pulseaudio
991 apt-cache search pulseaudio
992 aptitude install pulseaudio
993 sudo aptitude install pulseaudio
994 sudo aptitude remove pulseaudio
995 find / | grep pulseaudio
997 sudo aptitude install pulseaudio
1005 pulseaudio --start
1006 sudo pulseaudio --start
1014 history | grep pulse
1015 sudo apt-get install pulseaudio
1016 pulseaudio
1018 dpkg -l | grep '^r.*pulse'
1019 sudo apt-get install pulseaudio
1020 pulseaudio -k
1021 pulseaudio --start

i also found this:

onion@onion-ThinkPad-T420s:~$ pactl list sources
Source #0
State: SUSPENDED
Name: alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo.monitor
Description: Monitor of Built-in Audio Analog Stereo
Driver: module-alsa-card.c
Sample Specification: s16le 2ch 44100Hz
Channel Map: front-left,front-right
Owner Module: 6
Mute: no
Volume: front-left: 65536 / 100% / 0,00 dB, front-right: 65536 / 100% / 0,00 dB
balance 0,00
Base Volume: 65536 / 100% / 0,00 dB
Monitor of Sink: alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo
Latency: 0 usec, configured 0 usec
Flags: DECIBEL_VOLUME LATENCY
Properties:
device.description = "Monitor of Built-in Audio Analog Stereo"
device.class = "monitor"
alsa.card = "0"
alsa.card_name = "HDA Intel PCH"
alsa.long_card_name = "HDA Intel PCH at 0xf1620000 irq 35"
alsa.driver_name = "snd_hda_intel"
device.bus_path = "pci-0000:00:1b.0"
sysfs.path = "/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/sound/card0"
device.bus = "pci"
device.vendor.id = "8086"
device.vendor.name = "Intel Corporation"
device.product.id = "1c20"
device.product.name = "6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family High Definition Audio Controller"
device.form_factor = "internal"
device.string = "0"
module-udev-detect.discovered = "1"
device.icon_name = "audio-card-pci"
Formats:
pcm

Source #1
State: SUSPENDED
Name: alsa_input.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo
Description: Built-in Audio Analog Stereo
Driver: module-alsa-card.c
Sample Specification: s16le 2ch 44100Hz
Channel Map: front-left,front-right
Owner Module: 6
Mute: no
Volume: front-left: 65532 / 100% / -0,00 dB, front-right: 65532 / 100% / -0,00 dB
balance 0,00
Base Volume: 8250 / 13% / -54,00 dB
Monitor of Sink: n/a
Latency: 0 usec, configured 0 usec
Flags: HARDWARE HW_MUTE_CTRL HW_VOLUME_CTRL DECIBEL_VOLUME LATENCY
Properties:
alsa.resolution_bits = "16"
device.api = "alsa"
device.class = "sound"
alsa.class = "generic"
alsa.subclass = "generic-mix"
alsa.name = "CX20590 Analog"
alsa.id = "CX20590 Analog"
alsa.subdevice = "0"
alsa.subdevice_name = "subdevice #0"
alsa.device = "0"
alsa.card = "0"
alsa.card_name = "HDA Intel PCH"
alsa.long_card_name = "HDA Intel PCH at 0xf1620000 irq 35"
alsa.driver_name = "snd_hda_intel"
device.bus_path = "pci-0000:00:1b.0"
sysfs.path = "/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/sound/card0"
device.bus = "pci"
device.vendor.id = "8086"
device.vendor.name = "Intel Corporation"
device.product.id = "1c20"
device.product.name = "6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family High Definition Audio Controller"
device.form_factor = "internal"
device.string = "front:0"
device.buffering.buffer_size = "65536"
device.buffering.fragment_size = "32768"
device.access_mode = "mmap+timer"
device.profile.name = "analog-stereo"
device.profile.description = "Analog Stereo"
device.description = "Built-in Audio Analog Stereo"
alsa.mixer_name = "Conexant CX20590"
alsa.components = "HDA:14f1506e,17aa21d2,00100002 HDA:80862805,80860101,00100000"
module-udev-detect.discovered = "1"
device.icon_name = "audio-card-pci"
Ports:
analog-input-internal-mic: Internal Microphone (priority: 8900)
analog-input-mic: Microphone (priority: 8700, not available)
Active Port: analog-input-internal-mic
Formats:
pcm



cheers