Eric S Fraga wrote: > I recently did an 'apt update; apt upgrade' on my desktop which is > running testing (aka buster). Doing so led to my losing sound through > any application that relies on pulseaudio, e.g. firefox. I could still > use console based tools (e.g. mocp) to listen to music but pulseaudio > could not find my default built-in sound card, only the nvidia card > which provides sound through HDMI. Unfortunately, not having any audio > device connected via HDMI, I could not hear anything. I only have > speakers connected through the headphone jack. (old skool) > > Purging timidity from my system fixed the problem. I did this based on > the advice from this web page: > > https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=154002 > > although I am not entirely sure why this worked. Halfway through the > purging operation, sound came back without even having to reboot or > restart any services. > > Just a heads up in case somebody else loses sound all of a sudden.
Hi this is known issue, but purging is really not necessary as you could set (AFAIK) TIM_ALSASEQ=false in /etc/default/timidity regards