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I have Ubuntu 12.04 installed on my laptop. When I go to Sound Settings while logged into my user, no sound card appears detected.

In spite of this, the sound on my laptop is working ok, and I can use alsamixer just fine. The Unity sound indicator is dead, and this is quite annoying.

If I login as guest, the sound indicator works just fine, I assume it's something related to my user's sound settings, but I cannot find what exactly.

Any clues?

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  • If sound is coming in guest account, the sound card is already detected
    – Anwar
    Jun 24, 2012 at 13:45

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I had the same problem on my MacBook Pro 8.1 running Ubuntu 12.04. I solved it by resetting pulseaudio user configuration as explained here.

You have to run the following lines in terminal

rm -r ~/.pulse*; pulseaudio -k

and then logout and log back in.

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  • I got this message on running above mentioned command rm: cannot remove .pulse*': No such file or directory
    – Junaid
    Jun 21, 2018 at 7:53
  • try .config/pulse instead of .pulse
    – radrow
    Feb 16, 2020 at 19:08
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If you are referring to the problem that, You cannot select sound profile from the sound settings menu, then you can try the following method. I provided the answer in some questions. It works for me, so can also work for you.


Solution 1:

(It worked for me with Only S/PDIF profile, Sound from both headphone and speaker and not being able to switch profile)

  1. Add this ppa by the command

     sudo apt-add-repository ppa:ubuntu-audio-dev/alsa-daily
    
  2. Update packages list by

     sudo apt-get update
    
  3. Then install "alsa-hda-dkms" package:

     sudo apt-get install alsa-hda-dkms
    

Reboot, And See the result!


Solution 2

  1. Go to Realtek official site, accept the disclaimer, then download the audio driver for linux/unix. You need to select version 3 for Kernel 3 or later.

  2. Setup necessary tools to compile this driver.

    sudo apt-get install build-essential gcc make

  3. Extract the downloaded file, run sudo ./install file from a terminal after going to the extracted folder to compile the driver.

  4. Read the Readme.txt file for more information.

I had a problem with Sound settings in Ubuntu 12.04 (not being able to switch profile). It fixed now.

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  • Solution 2 : Now I can't see my card in sound settings :( Oct 12, 2012 at 18:53
  • the realtek drivers site no longer works. Aug 6, 2017 at 18:24
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I have had this problem with 12.10 and looked all over. I finally found my answer here:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/alsa-driver/+bug/864735

I modified /etc/default/grub, rebooted and voila!

Hope this helps.

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  • Thanks for contributing this answer! It's generally helpful to quote the most relevant parts of a link (in this case, the instructions on the modification to make to /etc/default/grub) in case the target site is unavailable. Dec 14, 2012 at 23:50
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In my case (Dell Latitude E4310 laptop) the problem was the following line in /etc/pulse/client.conf:

autospawn = no

I commented this out, and then ran

pulseaudio -k

and

pulseaudio

and then the sound icon in the taskbar came back to life, and the volume up/down/mute buttons started working.

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Install pulseaudio-module-udev

sudo apt-get install pulseaudio-module-udev
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    Why do you suggest it? Please do not post "it worked for me".
    – Pilot6
    Jul 23, 2016 at 3:26
  • -1 That won't help. The PulseAudio setup is already working in the guest account, so installing another package won't change anything. Jul 23, 2016 at 14:58

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