[Nottingham] Intermittent sound on Ubuntu 16.04

[stripes theotoky]

Hi Martin,

Ran the script on a box I DON'T care about to see what happens it outputs
all the alsa settings into a text file. Still not sure I would run it on
the troublesome box as there is important stuff on there.
Having run the script I ran

~$ bash alsa-info.sh --stdout | grep Driver
Driver version:     k3.16.0-6-amd64
~$ bash alsa-info.sh --stdout | grep Library
Library version:
~$ bash alsa-info.sh --stdout | grep Utilities
Utilities version:  1.0.28

The result of this isn't consistent with that particular website and sound
is working fine on this box.

As for being hot and sunny yes you are right but the defective box is
10,000 miles away where I can't get my hands on it. I hope it can be taken
to the Melbourne Linux
 Users group on Saturday as I am pretty well out of ideas.

All the best
Stripes


On 19 July 2018 at 13:30, Martin via Nottingham <
nottingham at mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:

> Stripes,
>
> I'll second Jason's comment about do NOT run random scripts from
> internet forums or elsewhere unless you understand what is in the script
> and know what it is doing and how!
>
> You're welcome to bring your laptop along for us to take a look.
>
> Hopefully its nothing more than sorting the sliders in the sound mixer
> and/or un-muting whatever. If not, what is or isn't in the logs should
> show what is amiss/unexpected...
>
>
> See you along if you're in the area?
>
> (Your coordinates suggest you're somewhere very hot and sunny!? :-P )
>
> Cheers,
> Martin
>
>
>
> On 19/07/18 11:45, stripes theotoky via Nottingham wrote:
> > We hear the chimes when the computer starts but then sometimes there is
> > sound sometimes there isn't, sometimes when there is sound it vanishes
> > after the computer suspends. Everything else about the computer seems to
> > be working fine.
> >
> > It is a dell laptop running ubuntu 16.04.
> >
> > Have worked though the first two steps in this with no effect.
> > About to start working on step 3 but in if anyone has any better ideas
> > they would be most welcome.
> >
> > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SoundTroubleshootingProcedure
> >
> > All the best
> >
> > --
> > Stripes Theotoky
> >
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> > 145.050562
>
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Stripes Theotoky

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