[solved]sound issues with alsa

Hello everyone. My system sound has stopped working after using cmus. What I did was to launch cmus, followed by opening a folder with audio files and playing one. I then closed the terminal while the audio file was still playing. When I tried to run cmus again a message along the lines of "socket was still active" was outputted without launching cmus. So i deleted the ~/.cmus directory and cmus was able to launch again. However this time there was no audio. I tested for audio in youtube but there was none there either. I have run speaker-test but to no avail. I deleted and reinstalled alsa numerous times as well as all the configuration files associated with it on the system but there is still no audio. I doesnt seem to be a hardware issue because the sound works in Ubuntu on another partition. Maybe it is a driver issue? Has anyone had any similar issues?
Last edited by rgb-one (2014-07-09 19:22:29)

Ok so the issue was that it was muted. I accidentally clicked the , key while in alsa and the audio started to play. So it switched from MM to 00. I installed the firmware package but I am uncertain if that has anything to do with the solution. I ill test it some other time. Thanks.
Last edited by rgb-one (2014-07-09 19:27:02)

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