Bug#712209: Try alsactl init

[Karel Krecmer]

Hi,

I hit the same. Today after I started my computer I had no audio at all.

I don't know the root cause, but I run as root
  alsactl init
and it has helped.

I hope it help you too as workaround.

All the best
  Karel
-- 
Karel Krecmer

For reference:
~# alsactl init
Found hardware: "HDA-Intel" "Intel CougarPoint HDMI"
"HDA:14f1506e,17aa21da,00100002 HDA:80862805,80860101,00100000" "0x17aa"
"0x21da"
Hardware is initialized using a generic method

~$ dpkg -l | grep -e alsa -e pulse
ii  alsa-base                                                   1.0.25+3
                   all          ALSA driver configuration files
ii  alsa-firmware-loaders                                       1.0.27-2
                   amd64        ALSA software loaders for specific hardware
ii  alsa-oss                                                    1.0.25-1
                   amd64        ALSA wrapper for OSS applications
ii  alsa-tools                                                  1.0.27-2
                   amd64        Console based ALSA utilities for specific
hardware
ii  alsa-tools-gui                                              1.0.27-2
                   amd64        GUI based ALSA utilities for specific
hardware
ii  alsa-utils                                                  1.0.27.1-1
                   amd64        Utilities for configuring and using ALSA
ii  bluez-alsa:amd64                                            4.101-2
                  amd64        Bluetooth ALSA support
ii  gstreamer0.10-alsa:amd64                                    0.10.36-1.1
                  amd64        GStreamer plugin for ALSA
ii  gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio:amd64
 0.10.31-3+nmu1                amd64        GStreamer plugin for PulseAudio
ii  gstreamer1.0-pulseaudio:amd64                               1.0.8-1
                  amd64        GStreamer plugin for PulseAudio
ii  libcanberra-pulse:amd64                                     0.30-2
                   amd64        PulseAudio backend for libcanberra
ii  libpulse-mainloop-glib0:amd64                               4.0-6
                  amd64        PulseAudio client libraries (glib support)
ii  libpulse0:amd64                                             4.0-6
                  amd64        PulseAudio client libraries
ii  libpulsedsp:amd64                                           4.0-6
                  amd64        PulseAudio OSS pre-load library
ii  libsox-fmt-alsa:amd64                                       14.4.1-3
                   amd64        SoX alsa format I/O library
ii  pulseaudio                                                  4.0-6
                  amd64        PulseAudio sound server
ii  pulseaudio-esound-compat                                    4.0-6
                  amd64        PulseAudio ESD compatibility layer
ii  pulseaudio-module-gconf                                     4.0-6
                  amd64        GConf module for PulseAudio sound server
ii  pulseaudio-module-x11                                       4.0-6
                  amd64        X11 module for PulseAudio sound server
ii  pulseaudio-module-zeroconf                                  4.0-6
                  amd64        Zeroconf module for PulseAudio sound server
ii  pulseaudio-utils                                            4.0-6
                  amd64        Command line tools for the PulseAudio sound
server
ii  vlc-plugin-pulse
 1:2.0.8-dmo2                  amd64        PulseAudio plugin for VLC
ii  xmms2-plugin-alsa                                           0.8+dfsg-6
                   amd64        XMMS2 - ALSA output
ii  xmms2-plugin-pulse                                          0.8+dfsg-6
                   amd64        XMMS2 - PulseAudio output plug-in

~$ lsmod | grep -e audio -e snd
snd_hda_codec_hdmi     31720  1
snd_hda_codec_conexant    40314  1
snd_hda_intel          35718  5
snd_hda_codec         122850  3
snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec_conexant,snd_hda_intel
snd_hwdep              13189  1 snd_hda_codec
snd_pcm                68525  4
snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel
snd_page_alloc         13018  2 snd_pcm,snd_hda_intel
snd_seq                45186  0
snd_seq_device         13176  1 snd_seq
snd_timer              22773  2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd                    53068  19
snd_hwdep,snd_timer,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec_conexant,snd_pcm,snd_seq,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel,thinkpad_acpi,snd_seq_device
soundcore              13026  1 snd

~$ uname -a
Linux .... 3.10-1-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.10.3-1 (2013-07-27) x86_64 GNU/Linux
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