As suspected, it is a config problem usually associated with upgrading.<div>I may need physical access as resolving this over mail will be difficult!</div><div>But for now....</div><div><font size="4"><b><br></b></font></div>

<div><font size="4"><b>Legend:</b></font></div><div><b style="font-family: &#39;courier new&#39;, monospace; ">this is a command <font color="#3333ff">#This is a comment</font></b></div><div><b style="font-family: &#39;courier new&#39;, monospace; ">You can paste the commands along with the comments if you like. They&#39;ll be ignored</b></div>

<div><font face="&#39;courier new&#39;, monospace"><b><br></b></font></div><div><b style="font-family: &#39;courier new&#39;, monospace; "><br></b></div><div><font size="4"><b>STEP 2 - fire up bash and paste the following <u>one by one</u>:-</b></font></div>

<div><font face="&#39;courier new&#39;, monospace"><b><br></b></font></div><div><b style="font-family: &#39;courier new&#39;, monospace; ">sudo su <font color="#3333ff">#To avoid typing sudo for every command</font></b></div>

<div><b style="font-family: &#39;courier new&#39;, monospace; ">apt-get update <font color="#3333ff">#Just incase</font></b></div><div><div><font face="&#39;courier new&#39;, monospace"><b>killall pulseaudio <font color="#3333ff">#Prime suspect number 1</font></b></font></div>

<div><span style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><font face="&#39;courier new&#39;, monospace"><b>rm -R ~/.pulse* </b></font></span><b style="font-family: &#39;courier new&#39;, monospace; "><font color="#3333ff">#and his suspect config files</font></b></div>

<div><span style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><font face="&#39;courier new&#39;, monospace"><b>rm -R </b></font></span><span style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; text-align: left; white-space: pre; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247); "><font face="&#39;courier new&#39;, monospace"><b>/etc/pulse </b></font></span><b style="font-family: &#39;courier new&#39;, monospace; "><font color="#3333ff">#&quot;   &quot;    &quot;       &quot;      &quot;</font></b></div>

<div><span style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; text-align: left; white-space: pre; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247); "><font face="&#39;courier new&#39;, monospace"><b>apt-get reinstall </b></font></span><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; white-space: pre; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><b>&quot;pulseaudio-*&quot; </b></span><b style="font-size: 13px; font-family: monospace; line-height: 19px; white-space: pre; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">libasound2-plugins</b><b style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; white-space: pre; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "> paman padevchooser paprefs pavucontrol pavumeter </b><b style="font-family: &#39;courier new&#39;, monospace; "><font color="#3333ff">#now we reinstall them afresh</font></b></div>

<div><b style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; white-space: pre; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><br></b></div><div><font color="#000099" size="4"><b>Reboot your setup after it finishes the re-installation.</b></font></div>

<div><font color="#000099" size="4"><b>Provide feedback just as you did so that i refer you to </b></font><b style="font-size: large; ">STEP 3</b></div><div><b style="font-size: large; ">(which involves doing the same for ALSA if the above doesn&#39;t remedy)</b></div>

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<div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="border-collapse:collapse"><span style="font-size:13px"><br></span></span></font></div></font></font><div><font face="&#39;courier new&#39;, monospace"><span style="font-family:arial"><font><font><font color="#006600" face="&#39;courier new&#39;, monospace"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"><b>Good judgement comes from Experience.</b></span></font></font></font><div>

<font face="&#39;courier new&#39;, monospace"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"><b><font color="#cc0000">Most of that comes from Bad Judgement.</font></b></span></font></div></span></font><div><div><font><font><font><div>

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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2011/10/22 Yonny Mutai <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:yonnym@googlemail.com">yonnym@googlemail.com</a>&gt;</span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">

Try increasing the volume using alsamixer<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 10:46 PM, Simon Mbuthia <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:simon.mbuthia@gmail.com" target="_blank">simon.mbuthia@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>



<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><font face="tahoma,sans-serif">Detected. See attached.<br></font><div><div></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">

On 22 October <a href="tel:2011%2021" value="+254201121" target="_blank">2011 21</a>:57, James Nzomo <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:kazikubwa@gmail.com" target="_blank">kazikubwa@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>

<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><b><font size="4">STEP 1</font></b></div>Get an Oneiric live CD and boot into it on the same machine.<div>Check whether you experience the same problem(s).</div>





<div><br></div><div>Post some feedback for instructions on <b><font size="4">STEP 2</font></b></div>

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</span></span></font></div></font></font><div><font face="&#39;courier new&#39;, monospace"><span style="font-family:arial"><font><font><font face="&#39;courier new&#39;, monospace" color="#006600"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"><b>Good judgement comes from Experience.</b></span></font></font></font><div>







<font face="&#39;courier new&#39;, monospace"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"><b><font color="#cc0000">Most of that comes from Bad Judgement.</font></b></span></font></div></span></font><div><div><font><font><font><div>







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<font face="tahoma,sans-serif">Thanks guys for your quick response. <br><br>@Allan I have already installed that but still no change. (See attachment)<br><br>@Collins <br>$ lspci -v | grep -A7 -i &quot;audio&quot;<br>00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 01)<br>









    Subsystem: Intel Corporation Device d606<br>    Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 45<br>    Memory at 901c0000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]<br>    Capabilities: &lt;access denied&gt;<br>    Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel<br>









    Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel<br><br></font><div><div></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 22 October <a href="tel:2011%2019" value="+254201119" target="_blank">2011 19</a>:34, [ Brainiac ] <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:arebacollins@gmail.com" target="_blank">arebacollins@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>









<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">hi simon, specifics on your hardware would also help a lot. <br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div></div><div>

On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 7:28 PM, Allan O. <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:allayy@gmail.com" target="_blank">allayy@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
</div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div></div><div>Hey Simon, <br><br>Get to the Ubuntu software center and search for Ubuntu Restricted Extras. Install then see if it works.<br>










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