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I've upgraded from 14.10 to 15.04 and then directly to 15.10.

I have a TV connected to the computer via HDMI cable. The sound was working ok after the upgrade but after using the TV and coming back to the computer, I do not have the sound anymore.

Tried restarting the computer but no sound. When getting the logging screen, I do hear the sound though.

Looking into the settings->sound I only have the digital option and no analog option in the drop down menu.

Things I've tried:

sudo alsa force-reload

Killed the pulseaudio process and it restarted again automatically. Still no sound.

Reinstalled Alsa and Pulseaudio

$ sudo apt-get remove --purge alsa-base pulseaudio
$ sudo apt-get install alsa-base pulseaudio
$ sudo alsa force-reload

Restarted but no success. I also lost the volume icon in the top bar and the settings-sound looks a bit different now.

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The device option did change though and now shows

HDMI / DisplayPort - built-in Audio

instead of just built-in Audio

Tried uninstalling Alsa and Pulse and reinstalling with the HDMI and TV not connected to the computer but got the same results.

Deleting the .config->pulse folder + logout, login didn't help

Here is the result of a $ aplay -l

**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: MID [HDA Intel MID], device 0: VT1708S Analog [VT1708S Analog]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

card 0: MID [HDA Intel MID], device 3: VT1708S Digital [VT1708S Digital]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

card 2: HDMI [HDA ATI HDMI], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

In the settings->sound profile, I only have

Digital Stereo (HDMI) Output

This is a screen shoot of the Alsamixer

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Any ideas?

Thanks a lot

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I'm answering my own question. I found out that the card profile is changing automatically to Digital each time I choose to use a different card (the one from the TV) and come back to the one of the computer. So, it come back to

Digital Stereo (HDMI) output

and I need to change it manually each time to

Analog Stereo Output (unplugged)

It is a bit strange to me because the Analog Stereo is marked as "unplugged" but it is working and I'm getting the sound back.

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Tried to change the default profile of the card but no success so far. I will open another question about it

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I have had similar problems and all the forums I could find were talking about PulseAudio and AlsaMixer. None of those solutions worked for me.

I finally found my solution in updating my Graphic Cards driver from which the HDMI cable was connected using these following steps: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto/AMD

You might not have the same graphic cards or any but you might give it a try to update your driver.

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Try in console, as normal user:

pacmd set-card-profile 0 output:analog-stereo

and reiniciate, after that analog stereo will be configurated

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