[PLUG] Audio goes away

[Ken Stephens]

Chuck,

You could be running alsa.  Check status by: systemctl status
alsa-state.service<cr>

Another check:  systemctl status alsa-restore.service<cr>

Ken

On Sun, Apr 7, 2019 at 10:10 PM Chuck Hast <wchast at gmail.com> wrote:

> Folks, I thought I had a bad component on the mobo, but testing seems to be
> sending me
> in the direction of some software issue. I am running Mate 18.04 I check
> for updates auto-
> magically, though I do not let the machine do auto-updates so I can make
> sure all is good.
>
> At some point the machine started loosing the audio, A reboot would bring
> it back for the
> rest of the day but sometime during the night it would go away again. I
> thought  I had a bad
> component but the other day I ran Ubuntu 18.04 off of a stick on this
> machine and the audio
> was just fine. I let it go over night, still good audio. so it looks like
> something is going on
> software wise but I am not sure where to go after it, one thing I noticed
> is there is poping
> and crackling in the audio output, like something is trying to do something
> but no joy.
>
> If I reboot the machine I get the audio back until the next day, so
> something is happening
> with the audio app.
>
> I am trying to figure out how to troubleshoot this one.  Any ideas?
>
>
> --
>
> Chuck Hast  -- KP4DJT --
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