On Tuesday 08 April 2014 19:11:13 Chris Graham wrote: > 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. Thanks, Chris. I have marked this email to refind it. I can see myself having to use this often one way or another! Lisi