[debbugs-tracker] bug#35599: closed (No sound most of the time (dummy output))

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> No sound most of the time (dummy output)
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> Sun, 05 May 2019 13:05:08 -0500
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> Hi,
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> I installed the GNU system in a real machine using the Guix 1.0 ISO installer 
> (https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guix-system-install-1.0.0.x86_64-linux.iso.xz).
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> When I play video or audio in the browser or in the desktop, I get no audio. 
> The volume controls in the browser and desktop show the sound is not disabled. 
> There are no errors about missing codecs or anything like that. The media 
> plays, but there is no audio coming out from the speakers (which are on). Audio 
> and speakers worked fine in the distro I was using before installing GNU with 
> Guix. I posted this issue to help-guix 
> (https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-guix/2019-05/msg00107.html). This is 
> what I've tried so far:
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> When I go to GNOME Settings → Sound, I get this:
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> https://multimedialib.files.wordpress.com/2019/05/dummy-output-gnu-guix-1.0.png
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> The name of the only device listed there corresponds to "Dummy output" in 
> English. So, for some reason, the system is not detecting the real sound device.
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> Running:
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>     guix environment --ad-hoc alsa-utils
>     alsamixer
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> displays this: 
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> https://multimedialib.files.wordpress.com/2019/05/alsamixer-guix-system-1.0.png
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> When I press F6 in alsamixer I see "(default)" selected, and there are no other 
> options, except for an "enter device name..." option.
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> I get this behavior almost every time I start the machine. Only once, I started 
> the machine and the speakers worked. The real sound device was displayed in 
> "GNOME Settings → Sound", and GNOME would display information when I plugged 
> some headphones.
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> However, I don't know why it worked that time. I thought it had worked because 
> that day I didn't plugged the headphones before booting, but trying to 
> reproduce the behavior, I went back to the beginning: No sound. No matter 
> whether I restart with headphones unplugged, I haven't been able to get the 
> sound device to be recognized again.
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--- Begin Message --- Subject: No sound most of the time (dummy output) Date: Wed, 08 May 2019 10:18:08 -0500 User-agent: Zoho Mail

Reconfiguring the system with "%base-packages" solved this issue. I have sound all the time.

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