So I upgraded my system from 20.04 to 22.04 using the official upgrade window but now my audio is all screwed up. My audio has been replaced with "Dummy Output" and it won't detect input at all. I can lower or increase the volume of this dummy output but there is no output from either my speakers or my earbuds. What can I do so I can hear and say things?
While searching around on AskUbuntu and trying solutions, I did find something sus:
guninvalid@guninvalid:~$ pulseaudio -k
guninvalid@guninvalid:~$ echo $?
0
guninvalid@guninvalid:~$ pulseaudio
E: [pulseaudio] pid.c: Daemon already running.
E: [pulseaudio] main.c: pa_pid_file_create() failed.
guninvalid@guninvalid:~$ sudo pulseaudio -k
[sudo] password for guninvalid:
E: [pulseaudio] main.c: Failed to kill daemon: No such process
Seems pulseaudio won't kill itself for some reason. Is this related?
In accordance with @Terrance's comment:
guninvalid@guninvalid:~$ sudo lshw -C multimedia
*-usb:1
description: Video
product: Integrated_Webcam_HD: Integrate
vendor: CN03GGY48LG0016GB63BA01
physical id: 6
bus info: usb@3:6
logical name: input16
logical name: /dev/input/event6
logical name: input17
logical name: /dev/input/event8
version: 5.29
capabilities: usb-2.01 usb
configuration: driver=uvcvideo maxpower=500mA speed=480Mbit/s
*-multimedia
description: Multimedia audio controller
product: Tiger Lake-LP Smart Sound Technology Audio Controller
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1f.3
bus info: pci@0000:00:1f.3
version: 20
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=sof-audio-pci-intel-tgl latency=64
resources: iomemory:600-5ff iomemory:600-5ff irq:16 memory:60552d8000-60552dbfff memory:6055000000-60550fffff
sudo lshw -C multimedia
. Thanks! – Terrance Sep 04 '22 at 21:16