Following up on my post, where I did a fresh upgrade to 18.04 ... Since then, I've done a few simalar, FRESH, upgrades without a problem with sound. So, I went back to my own system and tried a few things; I was tired of having to open a terminal and copy "pactl ..." I tried: 1. Purged Pulseaudio in Terminal with: sudo apt-get remove --purge pulseaudio 2. Rebooted and had sound, but no sound control in the system tray. 3. Reinstalled Pulseaudio with: sudo apt install pulseaudio 4. Immediately had no sound without using: pactl load-module module-detect 5. Repeated step 1 & 2; had sound
Knowing that Pulseaudio is only a control app for ALSA and wanting control in the system tray, I installed QasMixer (an ALSA GUI) with: sudo apt-get install qasmixer I think the problem is with Pulseaudio and the inability to get it configured correctly on some machines. There doesn't seem to be a way of troubleshooting or an easy fix. Now I have both sound and a controller again. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1770429 Title: Ubuntu 18.04 No audio from speakers. Headphones working. Surface Pro 3 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/alsa-driver/+bug/1770429/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
