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Ubuntu 14.04 no sound

I can hear no sound from my laptop. I installed Ubuntu 14.04 2 days ago and at first everything worked fine, but after a reboot the sound stopped. I searched for 3 hours on google and tried everything ...
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Ubuntu 18.04 soundcard not detected

I was trying to fix the crackling sounds on my ThinkPad x1 c6 I ran the following command to re-install the alsa audio driver. To do that I ran the following commands. 1) Remove the ALSA packages. ...
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Sound card not detected on Ubuntu 18.04

The sound on my ThinkPad Yoga X1 used to work a while ago. I'm not sure what changed, but now it doesn't work anymore. It still works continued to work for some time on the parallel installation of ...
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Audio Card can't be found

I had a similar problem as this person. Namely, I tried to install a Realtek audio driver and my laptop could no longer find my audio card. I followed the solution given in the post I linked, but no ...
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new 22.04 install cannot play sound on speakers

I have a fresh install of Ubuntu 22.04. The Bang & Olufsen speakers aren't playing sound. I've gone through https://help.ubuntu.com/stable/ubuntu-help/sound-nosound.html.en but nothing there ...
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No sound 18.04 and tried all the answers I can find

I have lost sound on my Ubuntu PC. I recently upgraded to a newer LTS (18.04). The sound was working after that. I powered off the PC for the night (something I rarely do) and in the morning, I had no ...
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Audio driver mapped wrongly to Nvidia causing no audio input ubuntu 20.04

Current kernel is 5.15.10 (custom build, cannot downgrade as my laptop has very new hardware, lower kernels do not support some drivers for them). Sound chip is Realtek ACL287. Somehow the system does ...
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Sound card not detected 16.04 Dell Inspiron 15 7579 (Dummy Output)

Running Ubuntu 16.04 on a Dell Inspiron 15 7579 I have tried several things to have sound in my laptop with no success, below is a list of the most relevant attempts. Reinstalling linux-sound-base, ...
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Sound card is suddenly not being recognised

Just an hour ago sound was working fine, I suspended my laptop and since I have come back to it I no longer have sound and my sound card is not being detected. Ubuntu 18.04, Thinkpad E570. I have ...
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External sound card UR22 Steinberg works in one installation but doesn't in other

I have two Ubuntu 18.04 systems. One on laptop, and other on PC. I have got external soundcard Yamaha UR22 Steinberg and trying to plug in it to PC. Ubuntu on laptop see it without any problems. But ...
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No sound in Lubuntu 18.04

I'm having issues with the sound on my Dell Inspiron 3133 Chromebook that has transitioned to Lubuntu LTS 18.04. I removed ChromeOS entirely and installed Lubuntu 18.04 using the following tutorial: ...
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