sound problem on Kubuntu 20.04

[Shlomo Solomon]

THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!

I started working on your list (most of which I had already tried, but
did again to be on the safe side).

And then I hit timidity


apt-get purge timidity solved the problem

again THANK YOU!!!!!!!





On Thu, 10 Dec 2020 09:40:11 +0200
borissh1983 at gmail.com wrote:

> On Thursday, 10 December 2020 9:02:48 IST Shlomo Solomon wrote:
> > On Thu, 10 Dec 2020 08:55:42 +0200
> > borissh1983 at gmail.com wrote:
> > 
> > I think you're right, but I have no idea how to fix it, or why it
> > was not setup automatically. As I wrote earlier, in the LiveDVD I
> > had sound.
> > 
> 
> I hope that would be ok to ask, these questions are just for the
> debugging steps . I understand you may have done them already but I
> do not know the answers yet. 
> 
> Would you mind checking if it does happen to a brand new unix user ?
> sometimes we modify our config files in home dir (and sometimes there
> would be software that would that behind our back) . 
> 
> Would it be possible to give us the output of  pacmd list-cards -
> these will provide us the list of cards pulse audio sees ("hardware").
> 
> Check if any program holds the sound cards : fuser -v /dev/snd/* 
> 
> Do you have timtidy installed ? if so can you try removing it and
> restarting the server and see if that unblock you ? timtidy is known
> to have issues with pulseaudio in debian , so there could be a
> similar problem with Ubuntu.
> 
> Do you use fluidsynth ? can you try removing it ? 
> 
> Can you open the Pulse Audio control box , go to output devices and
> there check if you have your analog output , if it is there try to
> set it's port. If there are no hardware devices listed there (we
> would also know that based on the command of pacmd list-cards) we
> would need to check why it's missing and how we can add it.
> 
> Have you configured manually pulse audio config
> (/etc/pulse/default.pa ,  /etc/pulse/daemon.conf)   ?
> 
> Do you have the same pulseaudio packages installed - you can compare
> lists on the existing OS and the live machine if both are running the
> same OS (you can using dpkg --get-selections | grep pulse | grep -vvv
> deinstall | cut -f1 to get the list on both sides). 
> 
> For your debugging you can try running : pulseaudio -k; pulseaudio
> -vvvvv 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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