Another sound fixing trick for the newest distros: yourusername@debian7:~$ su Password: root@debian7:/home/yourusername# alsa force-reload This reloads all the sound drivers en masse. Though fairly reliable, the sound still craps out occasionally for me on Mint 15, Ubuntu 13.04 and Debian testing, ( on a regular Dell PC) and this command usually fixes it. On 4/8/14, Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@...> wrote: > On Tuesday 08 April 2014 15:43:29 Alexandre wrote: >> Then, some laptops has a function keys, on the same keys as F1, >> F..., where you can press FN+ (the mute button) to turn on or off >> the sound. On some lappies, these keys are driven by the software >> (in linux), or on older lappies, it is directly controlled by the >> hardware, which is more multi-platform friendly. Also, does the >> laptop has a hardware volume control, probably on the side of it? > > That was it. Thank you so much Alexandre. There was a small actual > button, immediately below the touch-pad. Daft place. It can > obviously be touched by mistake far too easily! > > I now know the model: Dell Inspiron 9300. > > Thanks :-)) > > Lisi > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > trinity-users-unsubscribe@... > For additional commands, e-mail: > trinity-users-help@... > Read list messages on the web archive: > http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ > Please remember not to top-post: > http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting > >