OT: Ubuntu Re: Sound and is pipewire the problem?

On 11/18/25 1:24 AM, K0LNY ?? wrote:
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> So I stopped  the VM and booted into my Ubuntu 24X that I installed a long time back.
> It needed updating and upgrading, so I did that, there were several hundred packages to be upgraded.
> Along the way, it went totally silent too.
> In the Ubuntu, I went in with SSH from Windows and tried alsamixer, and it said there were no sound devices.
> speaker-test runs with no sound and no errors.
> Both aplay and paplay play a small file with no sound and no errors.
> Pipewire seems to be present there too.
> On the Ubuntu, what can I do to let alsamixer and/or pulseaudio find my soundcard?
> I thought that maybe pipewire is muting things, but if amixer does not see a soundcard, I don't know what else I can try in the CLI.

This is a Debian mailing list, appropreate Ubuntu channels might be better.

As you have access to the logs, look to see what's going on.

-- 
John Doe