Update: Loged in as guest and all works as charm. Using my account (administrator) nothing works and i am not able to locate advanced user management options :(
First of all - I use USB headset. there were some troubles with recognition at first, but prestigio were listed under hardware, so i activated it and all worked.
Now after I had to unplug headset and restart lappy, there is no sound devices at all listed under hardware tab. I cant adjust volume there. There is sound from built in speakers, but not from headset.
alsamixer shows me both built in audio card and prestigio (headset). I can choose them, but after esc and leaving alsa it rolls back to "default"
Following this thread, There are no Audio devices listed under hardware tab of audio preferences as a result no sound I gathered this info
Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03)
Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device 011e
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 47
Memory at 98400000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel
Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel
but solution offered (try killall pulseaudio; rm -r ~/.pulse* from terminal and logout or reboot) gave this result
pulseaudio: no process found
rm: remove write-protected regular file `/xxxxxx/.pulse/a336866c5ace61b2c9bc648a0000004f-runtime'?
rm: cannot remove `/xxxxxxx/.pulse': Directory not empty
I am at lost now. Multiple restarts with headset on and off have not yielded any other results. Any suggestions? this is my first time using ubuntu and i am at best confident user in windows, so my own knowledge is quite lacking on issue...
update: aplay -l gives this as result.
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
Failed to stat runtime directory /home/rizjaa/.pulse/a336866c5ace61b2c9bc648a0000004f-runtime: Invalid argument
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: ALC268 Analog [ALC268 Analog]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: Prestigio [Prestigio], device 0: USB Audio [USB Audio]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
sudo mv ~/.pulse ~/.pulse.old
and restart your session.