Re: sound problems after upgrade

[Kailash Kalyani <listskailash@gmail.com>]

On Thursday 12 December 2013 09:12 PM, Christopher Judd wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a testing box, kernel 3.2.0-3-amd64, using KDE. After an upgrade
> earlier this week, I am having problems with sound. The system is an MSI
> 760GM-P23 motherboard with onboard RealTek ALC887, and sound has always
> worked fine previously.
>
> The problem is that there is no sound output from Amarok, or when I try
> to test the various sound devices from the KDE system config window.
> Sound works fine in VLC, however.
>
> I have phonon configured to use the VLC-phonon backend; pulseaudio is
> not installed.
>
> How can I determine where the problem is, or which package is broken?
> Thanks.
>
> -Chris
>
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Hi Chris,

I seem to recall something similar reported in this mailing list's 
archives. Something about volume being set to zero after the upgrade...

http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2013/08/msg00215.html

Hope this helps,
Kailash