WizardStan
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I need some help. My audio stopped working kind of mostly.
I run arch with xfce and pulseaudio. I wanted to turn down the sound a little, as I have done many times before, but oops I slipped and when I dragged the master volume on the panel I accidentally muted it. I then unmuted but it didn't come back.
I've looked through pavucontrol, alsamixer, xfce4-mixer, everything says that there should be audio: nothing is muted, and all sliders are at full (even the ones that shouldn't make a difference) and yet there is nothing. In pavucontrol when looking at the playback tab the "audio level" bar doesn't move at all. And then I switch to HDMI output and suddenly everything springs to life, my TV/monitor starts playing the audio, the "audio level" bar starts barring, everything works. Turn it back to built in audio and silence.
So for some reason I accidentally muted my internal audio device and can't get it to unmute. This happened once before, I (intentionally that time) muted the audio and couldn't get it to unmute until I went to the xfce4-mixer and noticed that even though the master volume was up and unmuted my headphone (or PCM, I forget) volume slider was still at 0: moving it up fixed that. That is not the case this time.
Has anyone seen anything like this before? Audio muted but then won't unmute, even though everything says it should be unmuted? I've rebooted three times, once after forcing a reinstall of all alsa and pulseaudio packages.
Even if you haven't encountered this exact situation, if anyone has any ideas on what my next line of attack might be I'd love to hear it because I'm out of ideas, all I've got is "reinstall OS" and that seems a little extreme.
I run arch with xfce and pulseaudio. I wanted to turn down the sound a little, as I have done many times before, but oops I slipped and when I dragged the master volume on the panel I accidentally muted it. I then unmuted but it didn't come back.
I've looked through pavucontrol, alsamixer, xfce4-mixer, everything says that there should be audio: nothing is muted, and all sliders are at full (even the ones that shouldn't make a difference) and yet there is nothing. In pavucontrol when looking at the playback tab the "audio level" bar doesn't move at all. And then I switch to HDMI output and suddenly everything springs to life, my TV/monitor starts playing the audio, the "audio level" bar starts barring, everything works. Turn it back to built in audio and silence.
So for some reason I accidentally muted my internal audio device and can't get it to unmute. This happened once before, I (intentionally that time) muted the audio and couldn't get it to unmute until I went to the xfce4-mixer and noticed that even though the master volume was up and unmuted my headphone (or PCM, I forget) volume slider was still at 0: moving it up fixed that. That is not the case this time.
Has anyone seen anything like this before? Audio muted but then won't unmute, even though everything says it should be unmuted? I've rebooted three times, once after forcing a reinstall of all alsa and pulseaudio packages.
Even if you haven't encountered this exact situation, if anyone has any ideas on what my next line of attack might be I'd love to hear it because I'm out of ideas, all I've got is "reinstall OS" and that seems a little extreme.