How do I get sound to work outside lightdm

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If for whatever reason I sudo stop lightdm running on mint and just use a simple xinit session with mutter, is there some way I can get sound to work? Whenever I do that, it seems there's no sound.

Are you using `alsa`, `pulseaudio` or something else? – Dec 30 '12 at 19:39 — , Dec 30 '12 at 19:39

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 03 '12 at 09:48

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Check to make sure your applications are using alsa output as opposed to pulseaudio or esd (Or start those daemons yourself). Also make sure your mixer is unmuted with alsamixer.

answered Jul 03 '12 at 09:48

kaye

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When I run alsamixer, I get "cannot open mixer: No such file or directory" – dspyz Jul 05 '12 at 18:50

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered May 03 '17 at 01:18

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I was able to fix this issue on Lubuntu 16.04 by installing pulseaudio:

sudo apt-get install pulseaudio

answered May 03 '17 at 01:18

Max Malysh

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How do I get sound to work outside lightdm

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