Sound was working perfectly but few days ago sound does not work

raul_comodoro · 2026-03-20 14:34

I have installed Q4OS inside Windows. Everything was OK, and sound was working OK. Some days ago works does not work anymore. I've tested all about setting related to but there is no way sound works again.
I don't know what to do. Any suggestion?
May be I could reinstall the system...
Thanks.

q4osteam · 2026-03-20 15:34

What Q4OS version, desktop environment ?

don.cefe · 2026-04-26 19:16

Something similar happened to me. The sound went mute after installing some updates, but only when I login as User; if I login as Admin the sound works well. I'm using Q4OS Live from a USB drive.

theasmitkid · 2026-04-27 07:14

Happened to me a few times over the years, installing and opening pavucontrol got it working for me again

swarfendor437 · Today 20:36

don.cefe wrote:

Something similar happened to me. The sound went mute after installing some updates, but only when I login as User; if I login as Admin the sound works well. I'm using Q4OS Live from a USB drive.

You are not necessarily going to get sound working out of the box in live mode, especially if it is a dedicated soundcard.

swarfendor437 · Today 20:44

theasmitkid wrote:

Happened to me a few times over the years, installing and opening pavucontrol got it working for me again

I have a strong reluctance to use Pulse Audio. I have a SoundBlaster Audigy Rx which delivers sound to a Logitech surround sound system. My solution was to create a blacklist.conf file and add HDA Intel to be blacklisted (this is what HDMI audio tends to be identified as on any GNU/LinuxOS. I then install all possible ALSA packages (except for JACK and OSS), along with Qas Mixer, Qas Config and Qas Hctrl. I also had to install the SoundBlaster emulation packages, awesfx and ld10k1. To round it off, installed Audacious and then go to Settings in Audacious, change from Pulse to ALSA, and then in Advanced settings, selected the correct profile (5.1 Surround) from the drop-down list. Once Audacious was setup correctly, all other apps produced sound to the surround sound system. The only thing that cannot be sent to surround sound is streaming media in a browser - this gets sent to the centre stereo speaker.

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