   Ubuntu is driving me deaf!
  I know this isn't a technical support forum, but the pain is decreasing my coding productivity. I ran the usual updates in Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty a few weeks ago (on a Lenovo T43), when all of a sudden there is no sound! So I have been trying to follow this page:http://linux.iuplog.com/default.asp?item=94639Where it seems people have run into a similar problem. I've tried messing around with alsamixer, but I don't see anything related to IEC (I think this is the step I'm messing up, but I am not quite sure which options are IEC related?). So I went to the next step and ransudo totemand was surprised to see the following error messages being printed out as it tried to play some music:** (totem:6325): WARNING **: Failed to connect to the session bus: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.** (totem:6325): WARNING **: Error connecting to DBus: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.** (totem:6325): CRITICAL **: totem_remote_window_activated: assertion `DBUS_IS_G_PROXY (remote->media_player_keys_proxy)' failed** (totem:6325): CRITICAL **: totem_remote_window_activated: assertion `DBUS_IS_G_PROXY (remote->media_player_keys_proxy)' failed** (totem:6325): CRITICAL **: totem_remote_window_activated: assertion `DBUS_IS_G_PROXY (remote->media_player_keys_proxy)' failed...Any idea what this could mean? I'm thinking one of the easiest fixes would be to just reinstall ubuntu. It's driving me nuts that I can't get any sound from my linux partition, so if I want to listen to music I have to boot into windows!   
  Have you tried any other applications such as MPlayer or Banshee? Or is this a system wide error (no sound at all in any program)?   ;  I've tried RhythmBox, Banshee, Totem, MPlayer, and a few others, even in root mode. So this is definetely system wide.   ;  DBus is installed and running, right?   ;  do lspci and make sure you sound card is listed, and maybe a lsmod to see if the driver is loaded.   ;  I did check dbus, and it is installed. I even reinstalled it using synaptic, and then did a force-reload with dbus to no avail.lspci indicates that my sound card is listed:indurks@indurks-laptop:/etc/init.d$ sudo lspci...00:1e.2 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 03)00:1e.3 Modem: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 03)...and lsmod indicates that the sound driver is loaded and being used:indurks@indurks-laptop:/etc/init.d$ lsmodModule   Size  Used by...snd_ac97_codec    98464  1 snd_intel8x0ac97_bus 3200  1 snd_ac97_codecsnd_pcm_oss  44544  0 snd_mixer_oss17408  1 snd_pcm_osssnd_pcm 79876  3 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss ...ath_rate_sample   14080  1 pcspkr   4224  0crc_ccitt3072  1 irda...snd54020  12 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_seq_oss,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_devicesoundcore8672  1 sndwlan   204868  4 wlan_scan_sta,ath_rate_sample,ath_pci...;  silly question, but on your sound control is your volume muted?IIRC by command line it's like alsactl, but there should be some gnome frontend.   ;  Volume's not muted.Yeah I tried alsactl.At this point I'm too frustrated. My university gives out Red Hat Enterprise for free on campus. I really liked how everything was very easy in Ubuntu to configure /install, etc, so I was wondering if Red Hat Linux Enterprise would be a step in the gentoo direction too much?   ;  it shouldn't, but if at your school you have some people well versed in red hat, 98% of what they know can be used in ubuntu if you want someone to troubleshoot your sound problems.   ;Quote:Original post by Sagar_IndurkhyaVolume's not muted.Yeah I tried alsactl.At this point I'm too frustrated. My university gives out Red Hat Enterprise for free on campus. I really liked how everything was very easy in Ubuntu to configure /install, etc, so I was wondering if Red Hat Linux Enterprise would be a step in the gentoo direction too much?Red Hat is not close to Gentoo at all as far as linux distros go. It's package based like ubuntu and is is as easy to run and install as ubuntu. You should try running alsaconf to see if you need to configure the driver for some reason.   